[Samba] Samba AD DC: users cannot change expired passwords

Sun Oct 29 18:52:16 UTC 2023

Op 29-10-2023 om 19:38 schreef Andrew Bartlett:
> On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 10:44 +0200, Kees van Vloten wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> Op 27-10-2023 om 02:22 schreef Andrew Bartlett:
>>> I'm sorry to say that from here you really need to work closely with 
>>> a Samba developer (eg via a commercial support provider) or do a 
>>> deep dive into debugging yourself.
>>>
>>> Ideally if you have time, do a git bisect between the last known 
>>> working version and the first failing one.  That may find the 
>>> problematic commit, which will make a fix and adding a regression 
>>> test much faster.
>> If the statement (below) is that it should not work, then I don't see 
>> why it is worth an investigation. Can you clarify that?
>
> If a change is made that breaks a workflow, it is useful to find out 
> exactly what it is.  Even if it was deliberate and correct at the 
> time, it will provide context, and if it wasn't then you know what 
> changed and who changed it, and perhaps what they were thinking.
>
>>> I would note that we should never allow access over LDAP as a user 
>>> who has an expired password, even with the intention to change the 
>>> password.  Some other protocols (like kpasswd) should allow access 
>>> only to the password change service, and password changes over SAMR 
>>> can be done as one user (eg a service user) to change the password 
>>> of another.
>> I am not sure that it does not work on MS-AD  because the 
>> self-service-password application has some options for this:
>>
>> # Active Directory mode
>> # true: use unicodePwd as password field
>> # false: LDAPv3 standard behavior
>> $ad_mode = true;
>> # Force account unlock when password is changed
>> $ad_options['force_unlock'] = true;
>> # Force user change password at next login
>> $ad_options['force_pwd_change'] = false;
>> # Allow user with expired password to change password
>> $ad_options['change_expired_password'] = true;
>>
>> Why would there be an option 'change_expired_password' when this is 
>> not a supported feature in AD?
>>
>> Since I have no MS-AD so cannot check it.
>>
>> - Kees.
>>
> All the more reason do so further investigation.  Also trial copies of 
> Windows are available for download and are incredibly useful for this 
> kind of testing.

Sorry Andrew, I was too quick posting this with too little double checks.

Although those settings exist in self-service-password, they need a 
service-account with some delegated privileges. Instead I was using the 
other supported method, where the user with its own account changes the 
password. Then the settings in the fragment above are just not 
supported. I.e. nothing wrong with Samba, at least not here :-)

>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
>>>
>>> Andrew Bartlett
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2023-10-26 at 21:31 +0200, Kees van Vloten via samba wrote:
>>>> Hi Tobias and Rowland,
>>>> Is there any progress on topic?
>>>> Not here at least, I am still unable to change expired passwords, at
>>>> least  over LDAP, whereas that worked fine before 4.18.6.  In the
>>>> meantime I moved to 4.19.2 (and to Bookworm) but nothing changed.
>>>> I have enabled LDAP password change in enabled dsheuristics (value:
>>>> 000000001) in order to accommodate the self-service-password webui (from
>>>> ltb-project.org), which is a handy tool for users without desktop access
>>>> to change their password when it is that time again.
>>>> As such the tool still works fine, except that it is no longer possible
>>>> to change expired passwords. I looked back in git history if something
>>>> changed on the configuration of self-service-password but recently there
>>>> were no changes (last was in Feb. 22).
>>>> The audit_auth.log on the DC just shows an expired message and that's it:
>>>> {"timestamp": "2023-10-26T20:21:10.245303+0200", "type":
>>>> "Authentication", "Authentication": {"version": {"major": 1, "minor":
>>>> 3}, "eventId": 4625, "logonId": "0", "logonType": 8, "status":
>>>> "NT_STATUS_PASSWORD_EXPIRED", "localAddress": "ipv4:192.168.1.13:389",
>>>> "remoteAddress": "ipv4:192.168.1.17:36386", "serviceDescription":
>>>> "LDAP", "authDescription": "simple bind/TLS", "clientDomain": "SAMDOM",
>>>> "clientAccount": "CN=test 1 user,OU=User Accounts,DC=samdom,DC=com",
>>>> "workstation": "DC1", "becameAccount": null, "becameDomain": null,
>>>> "becameSid": null, "mappedAccount": "test1", "mappedDomain": "SAMDOM",
>>>> "netlogonComputer": null, "netlogonTrustAccount": null,
>>>> "netlogonNegotiateFlags": "0x00000000", "netlogonSecureChannelType": 0,
>>>> "netlogonTrustAccountSid": null, "passwordType": "Plaintext",
>>>> "clientPolicyAccessCheck": null, "serverPolicyAccessCheck": null,
>>>> "duration": 5351}}
>>>> log.samba has as litte info (at loglevel 3):
>>>> [2023/10/26 20:21:10.240175,  3]
>>>> ../../source4/auth/ntlm/auth.c:206(auth_check_password_send)
>>>>     auth_check_password_send: Checking password for unmapped user
>>>> [SAMDOM]\[test1]@[DC1]
>>>>     auth_check_password_send: user is: [SAMDOM]\[test1]@[DC1]
>>>> [2023/10/26 20:21:10.245239,  2]
>>>> ../../source4/auth/sam.c:259(authsam_account_ok)
>>>>     sam_account_ok: Account for user 'test1' password expired!.
>>>> [2023/10/26 20:21:10.245253,  2]
>>>> ../../source4/auth/sam.c:261(authsam_account_ok)
>>>>     sam_account_ok: Password expired at 'Mon Aug 14 11:54:53 2023 CEST'
>>>> unix time.
>>>> [2023/10/26 20:21:10.245274,  2]
>>>> ../../source4/auth/ntlm/auth.c:399(auth_check_password_recv)
>>>>     auth_check_password_recv: sam authentication for user [SAMDOM\test1]
>>>> FAILED with error NT_STATUS_PASSWORD_EXPIRED, authoritative=1
>>>> [2023/10/26 20:21:10.245284,  2]
>>>> ../../auth/auth_log.c:858(log_authentication_event_human_readable)
>>>>     Auth: [LDAP,simple bind/TLS] user [SAMDOM]\[CN=test 1 user,OU=User
>>>> Accounts,DC=samdom,DC=com] at [Thu, 26 Oct 2023 20:21:10.245280 CEST]
>>>> with [Plaintext] status [NT_STATUS_PASSWORD_EXPIRED] workstation [DC1]
>>>> remote host [ipv4:192.168.1.17:36386] mapped to [SAMDOM]\[test1]. local
>>>> host [ipv4:192.168.1.13:389]
>>>> - Kees.
>>>> Op 26-09-2023 om 09:05 schreef Pluess, Tobias via samba:
>>>>> Hi Rowland
>>>>> I went to my DC and set the samba log level to 10.
>>>>> Then I rebooted the DC.
>>>>> Afterwards, I went to the windows 10 machine and first logged in as a
>>>>> "normal" user that has no expired password. That worked of course well.
>>>>> Then I logged out and tried to log in as a new user, that has never logged
>>>>> in before, and whose account was configured as "user needs to change the
>>>>> password on first login". Then I was stuck in the "password expired" loop
>>>>> as described before.
>>>>> I uploaded the log.samba file to my Nextcloud
>>>>> https://hb9fsx.ch/nextcloud/s/bW8zx52TaTsJ44j
>>>>> <https://hb9fsx.ch/nextcloud/s/bW8zx52TaTsJ44j>
>>>>> as it is quite large. I marked the positions in the log where i logged in
>>>>> as "######## existing user login #######" and "######## new user with
>>>>> expired password login #######" so they can be found easily.
>>>>> But I believe the log is, unfortunately, not very helpful, as I cannot see
>>>>> any messages about the expired passwords, I cannot even find the user names
>>>>> of users who logged in, so therefore this log file is probably either not
>>>>> the right one or it will be difficult to impossible to learn something
>>>>> about this problem from that log. Nevertheless I wanted to share it  with
>>>>> you as you still may find something in there, hopefully.
>>>>> Let me know if I can help with providing further log files or doing other
>>>>> experiments.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> best
>>>>> Tobias
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 5:16 PM Rowland Penny via samba <
>>>>> samba at lists.samba.org
>>>>> <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:47:57 +0200
>>>>>> "Pluess, Tobias via samba" <
>>>>>> samba at lists.samba.org
>>>>>> <mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Rowland,
>>>>>>> yes I also got this message that was from Kees but signed by me. I
>>>>>>> did not send it. But I did send the very first message, though.
>>>>>> It confused me no end, can I suggest that if anyone replies to a samba
>>>>>> mailing list post, they just reply to the list, do not 'CC' anyone else
>>>>>> and do not reply to anyone else. That way, anyone who is subscribed to
>>>>>> the list will get the reply.
>>>>>>> I just checked the logs on the DC. There is nothing relevant in
>>>>>>> there. I cannot see any errors whatsoever.
>>>>>>> The strange thing is:
>>>>>>> When the password is expired, the user can, on the Windows 10 login
>>>>>>> page, literally enter ANY password, and gets the message "your
>>>>>>> password is expired" and when the user tries to change his password,
>>>>>>> no matter if the correct or a random password is entered as the old
>>>>>>> password, the message "password expired" appears again and the login
>>>>>>> is stuck in this forever loop unless "cancel" is clicked, which, of
>>>>>>> course, cancels the login.
>>>>>> I think that the password may or may not be changing, but either way,
>>>>>> the other relevant attributes do not seem to be being reset. Note,
>>>>>> this all guess work.
>>>>>>> So I checked every log file under /var/log/samba on my DCs (I have
>>>>>>> two off them, dc0 and dc1, which are rsync'ed).
>>>>>>> Let me know which config I shall change to increase the loglevel and
>>>>>>> I will do that and post the logs here.
>>>>>> Raising the loglevel on any Samba machine is fairly easy, you just add
>>>>>> the very aptly named parameter 'log level' to the global part of the
>>>>>> smb.conf , this should also point to a number, the higher the number,
>>>>>> the bigger the log. For instance, add 'log level = 3' will make Samba
>>>>>> log at level 3, you could try raising this number until something
>>>>>> possibly 'pops' out, The maximum level I would go to would be 10, but
>>>>>> beware, the logs at that level will be very large. You will also need
>>>>>> to restart your DC after adding the parameter or changing the log level.
>>>>>> Rowland
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> Andrew Bartlett (he/him) https://samba.org/~abartlet/
> Samba Team Member (since 2001) https://samba.org
> Samba Team Lead https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba
> Catalyst.Net Ltd
>
> Proudly developing Samba for Catalyst.Net Ltd - a Catalyst IT group 
> company
>
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