[Freeipa-devel] [freeipa PR#182][comment] Use env var IPA_CONFDIR to get confdir for 'cli' context

[tiran]

  URL: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/182
Title: #182: Use env var IPA_CONFDIR to get confdir for 'cli' context

tiran commented:
"""
The argument is mood. Even now you can't tell which config file ```ipa ping``` is going to load. There are tons of ways to modify behavior, e.g. mount binds, LD_PRELOAD, a ```sitecustomize.py``` or a ```.pth``` file in the users site-packages which mokey-patches ```ipaplatform.paths.paths```...

"""

See the full comment at https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/182#issuecomment-259721448