SUMMARY

Following on from #52354, if the XDG Base Directory Specification cannot be adopted, at least put the .ansible directory in .config so as not to pollute the home directory.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

COMPONENT NAME

Main command line ansible utility.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

As an aside, in #52354 @samdoran commented:

After discussing this internally, I believe the main concern is around the potential for a malicious user to set XDG_CONFIG_PATH to a path they control. On Unix, we assume ~/[anything] to be safe. If XDG_CONFIG_PATH is set to /var/tmp/xdg and that directory did not exist, a malicious user could create it and redirect it via symlink to a path they control, or set the permissions so they control everything under that path.

For reference, what if Ansible refused to obey XDG_CONFIG_PATH unless it was under ~? That would satisfy most users I suspect, and be easy to implement.