Drop NIS support

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Mar 24 20:10:31 UTC 2021


On 24/03/2021 19:58, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 17:57 +0000, Rowland penny via samba-technical
> wrote:
>> 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.
> Is there a way to emulate it on another backend using configuration
> options?
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>

I have no idea, but there is not much point in keeping something where 
its manpage says 'DO NOT USE THIS BACKEND' and 'DO NOT USE THIS PLUGIN' 
(the capitalisation is not mine). So, surely, it is fix it (and I seem 
to remember a discussion about this, where it was decided it couldn't be 
fixed, so the warnings were added to the manpage) or remove it to stop 
us looking stupid (my opinion).

Rowland




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