Drop NIS support

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 21:11 +0100, Ralph Boehme via samba-technical
wrote:
> Am 3/24/21 um 6:57 PM schrieb Rowland penny via samba-technical:
> > 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.
> 
> ...unless you know what you're doing.
> 
> There are folks out there using this at scale so removing this is
> not 
> really something we should consider.

That's the rub, once you commit to an idmap approach it is a massive
challenge to change.  

Andrew Bartlett

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