Source: krb5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Setting up kerberos by following 
http://techpubs.spinlocksolutions.com/dklar/kerberos.html

When invoking 'invoke-rc.d krb5-admin-server restart' or 'invoke-rc.d krb5-kdc 
restart', syslog prints "Couldn't open log file 
/var/log/kerberos/(kadmin|krb5kdc).log: Read-only file system"

To fix the problem, i created 
/etc/systemd/system/krb5-admin-server.service.d/logging.conf and 
/etc/systemd/system/krb5-kdc.service.d/logging.conf with the following content:

[Service]
ReadWriteDirectories=/var/log/kerberos

Shouldn't this be enabled by default in 
/lib/systemd/system/krb5-(admin-server|kdc).service?
And consequently, shouldn't the following be the default in /etc/krb5.conf?

[logging]
        kdc = FILE:/var/log/kerberos/krb5kdc.log
        admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kerberos/kadmin.log
        default = FILE:/var/log/kerberos/krb5lib.log

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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