CVS update: samba/source/auth

abartlet at samba.org abartlet at samba.org
Sun Nov 23 00:29:01 EST 2003


Date:	Sat Nov 22 13:29:01 2003
Author:	abartlet

Update of /data/cvs/samba/source/auth
In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv23686/auth

Modified Files:
	auth.c auth_ntlmssp.c auth_sam.c auth_util.c 
Log Message:
(merge from 3.0)

Changes all over the shop, but all towards:
 - NTLM2 support in the server
 - KEY_EXCH support in the server
 - variable length session keys.

In detail:

 - NTLM2 is an extension of NTLMv1, that is compatible with existing
domain controllers (unlike NTLMv2, which requires a DC upgrade).

 * This is known as 'NTLMv2 session security' *

(This is not yet implemented on the RPC pipes however, so there may
well still be issues for PDC setups, particuarly around password
changes.  We do not fully understand the sign/seal implications of
NTLM2 on RPC pipes.)

This requires modifications to our authentication subsystem, as we
must handle the 'challege' input into the challenge-response algorithm
being changed.  This also needs to be turned off for
'security=server', which does not support this.

- KEY_EXCH is another 'security' mechanism, whereby the session key
actually used by the server is sent by the client, rather than being
the shared-secret directly or indirectly.

- As both these methods change the session key, the auth subsystem
needed to be changed, to 'override' session keys provided by the
backend.

- There has also been a major overhaul of the NTLMSSP subsystem, to
merge the 'client' and 'server' functions, so they both operate on a
single structure.  This should help the SPNEGO implementation.

- The 'names blob' in NTLMSSP is always in unicode - never in ascii.
Don't make an ascii version ever.

- The other big change is to allow variable length session keys.  We
have always assumed that session keys are 16 bytes long - and padded
to this length if shorter.  However, Kerberos session keys are 8 bytes
long, when the krb5 login uses DES.

 * This fix allows SMB signging on machines not yet running MIT KRB5 1.3.1. *

- Add better DEBUG() messages to ntlm_auth, warning administrators of
misconfigurations that prevent access to the privileged pipe.  This
should help reduce some of the 'it just doesn't work' issues.

- Fix data_blob_talloc() to behave the same way data_blob() does when
passed a NULL data pointer.  (just allocate)


REMEMBER to make clean after this commit - I have changed plenty of
data structures...  

Andrew Bartlett



Revisions:
auth.c		1.58 => 1.59
	http://www.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/source/auth/auth.c.diff?r1=1.58&r2=1.59
auth_ntlmssp.c		1.8 => 1.9
	http://www.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/source/auth/auth_ntlmssp.c.diff?r1=1.8&r2=1.9
auth_sam.c		1.59 => 1.60
	http://www.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/source/auth/auth_sam.c.diff?r1=1.59&r2=1.60
auth_util.c		1.79 => 1.80
	http://www.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/source/auth/auth_util.c.diff?r1=1.79&r2=1.80



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