retitle 527025 Please move smbpasswd to /var/lib/samba
thanks

Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org):
> reopen 527025
> tags 527025 -moreinfo
> severity 527025 minor
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 06:45:35AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > However, what about the good old smbpasswd? It also lives in "private
> > dir".
> 
> Also not configuration; it really belongs in /var/lib as well, but it's
> kept in /etc/samba for historical reasons - which is precisely why pdb_tdb.c
> is patched rather than redirecting privatedir.
> 
> We could certainly revisit this, though, and do a migration of smbpasswd to
> /var/lib.


Agreed. This is definitely what made me draw the wrong
conclusions. Having smbpasswd and passdb.tdb living at different
places is anything but confusing.

So let's bring smbpasswd back to /var/lib/samba, then....

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