Description of Problem: cyrus-sasl uses /usr/lib/sasl/ as a configuration directory, in voilation of the FHS. (/usr/lib is for platform specific binaries) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.5.24-17, but this also affects all the applications that place *their* configuraion files here. Rawhide package appears not to have changed this. How Reproducible: Install cyrus-sasl and an applicaion configured to use it (like sendmail). Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: /usr/lib/sasl used as config dir Expected Results: /etc/sasl used as configuration dir, much like /etc/pam.d Additional Information: This prevents the mounting of /usr off a remote system and voilates the FHS.
*** Bug 62991 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Still an issue in FC5
/usr/lib/sasl2/smtp.conf still exists.
/usr/lib/sasl2/smtp.conf (and /usr/lib/sasl/smtp.conf) are installed by the postfix package, not cyrus-sasl. Also, the file /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf is installed by the sendmail package. The following changelog entry for cyrus-sasl indicates that if those applications move the config files, they will be found by cyrus-sasl: 2006-04-19 Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov> * configure.in: Search for application configuration files in /usr/lib/sasl2 by default and fall back to /etc/sasl2 if not found.