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

[Michael Adam]

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 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.

Same here. I did not even know this.

Cheers - Michael

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