Configuration files in /usr/etc
Charles Briscoe-Smith writes:
> I think the idea to have a search path for configuration files is the
> best I've seen so far. After all, we have search paths for both binaries
> and man-pages already.
Thanks :)
> A big advantage I see is that this could (partially) remove the need
> for the sysadmin to alter config-files. Do as the menu package does,
> and put the package-supplied config files in one place (/usr/etc
> possibly), site-wide custom configs somewhere else (under
> /usr/local/etc ?), and machine-local configs under /etc, as normal.
> And users would be able to add more directories to their CONFIG_PATH,
> like $HOME/.etc, getting per-user config files for free.
Yes, but No. Not this way, at least; allowing users to tell the system
where to find conffiles would potentially create *huge* security
holes, or prevent many critical programs to be run suid.
> I think it would be good to try to get something like this into glibc,
> so that other distributions would start to use it, not just keep it
> Debian-specific. The more package authors are willing to add support
> for this themselves, the less work maintainers will have to do!
Yes.
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Yann Dirson <dirson@univ-mlv.fr>
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