[illumos-Developer] HEADS UP: netservices is gone

[Alan Coopersmith]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> The removal of this piece of ancient and useless software is just one
> small step on that path.

2006 hardly counts as "ancient" when looking at Solaris history.   netservices
was introduced with Obsolete stability by the secure-by-default project in
snv_42 as a temporary transition aid - it's not historical, though it was
backported to Solaris 10 with the SBD project.

In any case, removing netservices means you've got a huge pile of man pages
to remove the references to using netservices(1) to unsecure-by-default the
machine (a big hammer we never recommended since customers should open
individual ports, not just open everything that was previously open and hope
it gets what the users need).

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System