Bugzilla Bug 137433

I'm working on configuring a new Kerberos V infrastructure with Gentoo. I'm
wondering why the mit-krb5 ebuild specifies localstatedir to be /etc instead of
the default /var/lib? The Kerberos databases are stored in the localstatedir,
and it seems odd for them to be in /etc rather than /var or /var/lib. In
particular, on my system / is a fixed partition with a fixed size, intended for
only small files and minimal expansion. Configuration files meet that criteria,
but not application databases. /var, on the other hand, is under LVM and
dynamically resizable online.

It would seem more consistent and efficient to put KDC databases under /var,
similar to where openldap databases are kept. I plan to update a local copy of
the ebuild to move them to /var/lib, it would be nice if that became the
default.

Agreed, if seemant has no objections we'll do in the next revbump.

no argument from me on this, I think it's a good thing to do.

fixed in mit-krb5-1.4.3-r2, thanks.

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