Drop NIS support

[Rowland penny]

On 24/03/2021 20:11, Ralph Boehme 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.
>
> -slow
>

Well according to the manpage 'DO NOT USE THIS BACKEND', they shouldn't 
be using it, you cannot have it both ways. Either it shouldn't be used, 
or those warnings need to be removed from the manpage.

Rowland