[cifs-protocol] salt used for various principal types

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Oct 2 16:49:47 MDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:37 -0700, Sebastian Canevari wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I have some information to share with you.
> 
> Attached, you will find a PDF with the modified sections detailing the calculations of the SALT for the various account types.
> 
> Please let me know if this answers your request.

Yes, this is exactly what I was after, but seems to be missing the
information provided last year about how interdomain trust accounts fit
into the problem:

>              KILE concatenates the following information to use as the
> key salt for realm trusts:
> 
>                Inbound trusts: <all upper case name of the remote
> realm> | “krbtgt” | <all upper case name of the local realm>
> 
>                Outbound trusts: <all upper case name of the local
> realm> | "krbtgt" | <all upper case name of the remote realm>
> 

This worries me, because it implies that either the information is still
spread out, or that changes we discuss here are not actually surviving
into the docs. 

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.
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