On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:09:13AM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: > The problem is that my application provides a set of default templates > for user creation. These files must be editable via the application > itself and therefore reside in /var/ldap-account-manager.
I most sincerely hope they do not. > But the files are overwritten on every package installation because they > are not treated as config files in Debian's sense. Well, don't do that, then. Ship the template files somewhere else, and then copy them into /var if they're not already there. > Now I think about moving the files to /etc. But Debian policy sais that > files in /etc should be owned by root and writable only by the user. > > So what can I do? Would it be ok to assign these files to group www-data > and allow the group write access? Or would it be better to own them by > www-data and not root? There are already some files in /etc that are writable by www-data, so that's a possibility too. It comes down to direct admin editability -- is it expected that sysadmins may want to futz around with these template files using a text editor, or is the only sensible way of dealing with these files through the application? If the former, /etc. If the latter, /var. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
