[illumos-Developer] HEADS UP: netservices is gone

[Ian Collins]

On 09/22/10 04:37 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 00:27 -0300, Hernan Saltiel wrote:
>    
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Garrett D'Amore<garrett at damore.org>
>> wrote:
>>          illumos is a true fork now.  There is little point in keeping
>>          around the
>>          netservices utility since we ship Secure By Default now.  This
>>          removal
>>          was reviewed by a couple of members of the developer-council,
>>          although
>>          we didn't give a full review, lacking any formal process for
>>          that at
>>          present.
>>
>>          This might be a time for us to start with some kind of
>>          fast-track like
>>          process, I'm not sure.
>>
>> Understand your point, Garrett, but don't you consider a better way to
>> wait for Solaris 11 to be on the streets to remove netservices if it's
>> removed too from S11?
>> Thanks, and best regards,
>>      
> In a word, "no".
>
> To elaborate further:  Solaris 11 is over a year away.  At the same
> time, the existing netservices command is both buggy in implementation,
> and defective in design, and serves no purpose.

+1 on that, I'd also add potentially dangerous to the list!  Services 
should be individually enabled as required.

netservices always was intended as a kludge.

-- 
Ian.