Is %{DomainSID} sub in smb.conf used?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 05:56:53PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> Introduced by Jerry in 9f18298beee5c6abf2cffc9e1d36da2795f4e9d6 and
> described in the release notes of Samba 3.0.23 as 
> 
> * Add support for the experimental %(DomainSID) smb.conf 
> variable.
> 
> I'm wondering if I can remove this undocumented feature, or if not I
> would like to know on which parameters it is expected to operate, so I
> can potentially move the substitution to the caller. 
> 
> The reason I want to is that it creates a dependency between the
> run-time reading of smb.conf variables (the infamous lp_string()) and
> reading the secrets.tdb.  
> 
> Fixing this allows me to resolve the the library loop between libsmbconf
> and SECRETS3/passdb.
> 
> Andreas correctly points out that this loop originally comes from my
> patch to obtain the domain sid from passdb
> (25cfa29e29bdbb6c84bd85ea02ec542228ae585f), but as I would prefer to
> keep that feature, I'm hoping to break the loop here instead. 
> 
> My patches attached define a libsmbconf that does not depend on
> secrets3, and is fully defined at build time.

I haven't seen any use of this parameter in the wild. Unless
someone steps up on the list I'd +1 on removal.

Thanks a *lot* for all this cleanup work, by the way. It is
*much* appreciated !

Jeremy.