SYSKEY, TNG freeze, 2.0.x->TNG merge and other thoughts

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On 10 Feb 2000, Todd Sabin wrote:

> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at samba.org> writes:
> 
> > > Yes, and there are reasons why HKLM\SAM is NOT a directory with up to 100
> > > 000 files in it - even Macrosoft code isn't THAT inefficient (usually).
> > > It's a file (registry hive), with access control implemented by the only
> > > process allowed to access it.
> > 
> > bad example to pick.
> > 
> > 1) the SAM is loaded into memfrom what i can tell, at start-up time.  i
> > may be wrong about this.
> > 
> 
> Actually, it's a whole registry hierarchy.  There is in fact one key
> and a couple of values per user, alias, and group.  However, the
> permissions on all of these keys are exactly the same: SYSTEM: Full
> Control, Admins: Write DAC.  NT's RPC servers implement the

[and user create+read, on the user-object.  use rpcclient's samquerysec
command]

> permissions checks explicitly, they don't rely on the permissions of
> the underlying kernel objects.

it's looking that way.  i'm just adding lsa_query_secret, lsa_set_secret,
and each of hklm\securyt\policy\secrets\nnn has a SecDesc member,
containing a security descriptor.

> > 2) the registry is implemented at the kernel level, for "speed"
> > optimisations.  this results in me being able to modify rpcclient and take
> > out an NT box with a blue-screen if i have an "authenticated user" SMB
> > connection (guest, user, admin but not anon-connect).
> 
> Actually, it's not implemented at kernel level.  The \winreg server is
> contained inside winlogon.exe.  Unfortunately, if winlogon.exe exits
> for some reason (like, umm, someone crashing it), the kernel notices
> it and actually _forces_ a blue screen itself.

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