Fix for winbindd schannel issue with win2003 sp1

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 21:40 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 	I think I've found a work around to allow winbindd to
> keep working correctly just using a machine account in a domain
> running w2k3 sp1 as a domain controller. Microsoft added a "security"
> feature that caused schannel queries to fail on the lsa and samr
> pipes if they are bootstrapped from an anonymous sessionsetup
> connection. In addition this fix should also remove the problem
> of having to have an account used purely for winbindd queries.
> 
> The fix is to cause an extended security sessionsetup to
> the DC using the machine account and password, followed by
> an spnego ntlmssp authenticated bind to the relevent lsa
> and samr pipes. 

Is that an anonymous bind?  Or does that use the 'account purely for
winbindd queries'?

> We might was well use sign & seal at that
> point as we've set it all up and it keeps things more
> secure :-).

This is always a good thing.  It would be nice to enforce SMB signing on
that connection too, but I can't hope for too much :-)

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc.        http://suse.de
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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