From: Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 08:50:28 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: Improve documentation of sysconfdir
X-Git-Tag: Release-7.4.1~2
X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9119d5050fb5a6a406786ed2aafbfd0623ee140d;p=bacula%2Fdocs

Improve documentation of sysconfdir
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diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/main/install.tex b/docs/manuals/en/main/install.tex
index 65ece443..babc4dcb 100644
--- a/docs/manuals/en/main/install.tex
+++ b/docs/manuals/en/main/install.tex
@@ -707,6 +707,19 @@ customize your installation.
    this directory should be unique to Bacula and not read/writable by
    any other user/group than Bacula is running under.
 
+   Please note that Bacula attempts to make the configuration directory 
+   secure by doing an:
+\smallskip
+   chmod 770 \lt{}sysconfdir\gt{}
+\smallskip
+   So, if you make sysconfdir point to a global directory such as
+   /usr/local/etc, the modes for that directory will be restricted, and
+   this may affect other programs that are installed there. We strongly 
+   recommend that you set {\bf sysconfdir} to {\bf /opt/bacula/etc} so
+   that the directory for all Bacula configuration files is unique to
+   Bacula and used only by Bacula.
+
+
 \item [ {-}{\-}mandir=\lt{}path\gt{}]
    \index[general]{{-}{\-}mandir}
    Note, as of Bacula version 1.39.14, the meaning of any path