Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy

2012-07-03 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said: > The package itself caters only for presenter and collector on the same > machine, which is done to give a working setup after installation. The > package is not likely to be used in this configuration in any > productive environment. ssh is one of the

Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy

2012-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:52:26AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think it's perfectly acceptable to have an admin drop data into a >> /var/lib directory for non-default configurations of packages. > Is this documented in policy? > Greetings > Marc, really reluctant to spe

Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy

2012-07-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:52:26AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think it's perfectly acceptable to have an admin drop data into a > /var/lib directory for non-default configurations of packages. Is this documented in policy? Greetings Marc, really reluctant to spend days to change a package in

Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy

2012-07-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:04:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Marc Haber writes: > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Ah, okay. For that use case, the only thing that you would care about the > >> user home directory containing is the authorized_keys file, c

Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy

2012-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Bill Allombert writes: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:04:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Oh, right, for the client. Yes, yes. >> Well, personally I would not consider either the client's key or the >> known_hosts file to be configuration files. > In some common situation, the known_hosts is c

Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy

2012-07-03 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:04:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Marc Haber writes: > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Ah, okay. For that use case, the only thing that you would care about the > >> user home directory containing is the authorized_keys file, c

Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy

2012-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Ah, okay. For that use case, the only thing that you would care about the >> user home directory containing is the authorized_keys file, correct? > known_hosts and the key itself. Oh, right, for the client.

Bug#679751: please clarify package account and home directory location in policy

2012-07-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 02:29:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Marc Haber writes: > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 09:50:37AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I'm not sure that I understand the use case. I've never needed to > >> create an authorized_keys file for a system account created by a > >>