[tctl] Don't explicitly set value for config path and preserve backwards compatibility #5731
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Fixes #5725
Historically, this is
tctl
's precedence order for OSS (most important at the top):-c
/--config
/etc/teleport.yaml
) if presentThis precedence order was changed (and was broken) in #5483 (changes in bold):
-c
/--config
TELEPORT_CONFIG_FILE
environment variable/etc/teleport.yaml
)This PR changes it to the following (which was the original intention; changes in bold):
-c
/--config
TELEPORT_CONFIG_FILE
environment variable/etc/teleport.yaml
)Also moves a couple of copies of the same
fileExists
function intoutils
for reuse.