[19565] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: .conf file in includedir
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robbie Harwood)
Tue Mar 21 13:55:48 2017
From: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, Weijun Wang <weijun.wang@oracle.com>,
krbdev@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a0db1805-a46e-f419-f607-2e1f711f0e5c@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:55:33 -0400
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> writes:
> On 03/21/2017 11:19 AM, Weijun Wang wrote:
>
>> "Including a directory includes all files within the directory
>> whose names consist solely of alphanumeric characters, dashes, or
>> underscores. Starting in release 1.15, files with names ending in
>> =E2=80=9D.conf=E2=80=9D are also included."
>>=20
>> My understanding of the old rule is to exclude OS-generated files
>> like .DS_Store and desktop.ini, but is it safe to include all ".conf"
>> files? At least I've heard that if you let a macOS access your
>> non-Apple file system, it will likely to create a ._krb5.conf file
>> beside your existing krb5.conf file.
>
> We had mainly been concerned with package system artifacts such as
> .rpmsave files. However, editors and filesystems are also a possible
> source of unintended duplicates. I think it might be good to ignore
> filenames beginning with ".", as these prefix-form name variants tend
> to begin with "." so that they don't show up in ordinary directory
> listings.
This seems reasonable to me as well; I think the behavior of including
dotfiles is unexpected.
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