Drop NIS support

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2021-03-24 at 20:16 +0000, Rowland penny via samba-technical
wrote:
> 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. 

Rowland, the 'on new installations' is silent, but implied. 

> Either it shouldn't be used, 
> or those warnings need to be removed from the manpage.

The world is not always so black and white (and would be far more
boring if it was). 

Andrew Bartlett

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