Bug#167422: general: files in /usr/share should be world-readable
Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.priv.at> writes:
> tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
>
> > This is incorrect. /usr/share is intended to be shared between
> > cooperating systems, but cooperating systems' root users might well
> > have secrets that they want to conveniently share.
>
> /usr/share is not appropriate for that, as it is the OS's playground
> (and I can't see any use for the OS installing secrets there).
> For site-specific secrets /usr/local/share is a better choice.
"root users" is not somehow not the OS. For example, root users store
secrets in the shadow password files.
I'm speaking of secrets that *OS* programs need to have, and which
should be shared among cooperating machines.
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