continue to support port in 'password server = dc:12389'?

[Christian M Ambach]

Volker wrote on 05/24/2011 06:06:02 AM:

> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:03:36PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:22:33PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > In the mists of time, in the early efforts to add support for
> > > 'security=ads', the 'ads server' parameter was added.
> > >
> > > It was merged with 'password server' in 2003 by Jerry,
> > > f51d769dd303027a3dbf46fc89a482933988e866 and has as far as I know
never
> > > been used, allowing a syntax of:
> > >
> > > password server = dc:12389
> > >
> > > Given that AD support involved (C)LDAP, RPC, Kerberos and SMB, being
> > > able to specify the LDAP port makes little sense to me.
> > >
> > > I've been working to clean up the 'password server' documentation and
I
> > > think the documentation would be simpler if this extra facility
didn't
> > > exist, and was not advertised.
> > >
> > > As such, I would like to deprecate this functionality in Samba 3.6.0,
> > > and apply the linked patches to 3.6.0.
> >
> > +1 from me. Drop the (rather dubious) "feature" :-).
>
> Yes, same here.

+1 from me

Christian