Drop NIS support

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Mar 24 17:57:36 UTC 2021


On 24/03/2021 17:52, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 09:12 -0700, Jeremy Allison via samba-technical
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 05:10:15PM +0100, Andreas Schneider via
>> samba-technical wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> could we drop NIS support for Samba 4.15?
>>>
>>> This means getting rid of lib/replace/system/nis.h and yp_*() ...
>> +1 from me. Let's see if anyone else is still
>> using it.
>>
>> So the current list for 4.15 will be Tru64, HPUX, NIS.
>>
>> Any more for any more ?
> Just to be clear to others, this is not the so-called NIS support in
> the AD DC which at one point helped Active Directory Users and
> Computers managed the rfc2307 user attributes.
>
> I'm happy for the real NIS support to go.
>
> In terms of other things to trim, what about some of the printing
> modes?
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
How about idmap_hash ? The one that says 'DO NOT USE THIS BACKEND' at 
the top of its manpage.

Rowland





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