Implementing LDAP Passwd sync [was] Re: NT Password Change
Behavior
Matt Pavlovich
mpav at algx.net
Wed Mar 20 18:39:02 GMT 2002
Andrew-
Thanks for the clarification.
Matt Pavlovich
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 20:14, abartlet at samba.org wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:02:11AM +0100, Osama Dengler wrote:
> > Am 20 Mar 2002, um 15:45 Uhr schrieb Matt Pavlovich zum Thema Implementing LDAP Passwd sync [was]:
> > Dazu meine Meinung:
> >
> > > I see the following fields in the SAM_ACCOUNT definition:
> > >
> > > pstring unknown_str ; /* don't know what this is, yet. */
> > > uint32 unknown_3; /* 0x00ff ffff */
> > > uint32 unknown_5; /* 0x0002 0000 */
> > > uint32 unknown_6; /* 0x0000 04ec */
> > >
> > > Will adding a new field to the SAM_ACCOUNT structure break anything? ie
> > > are there functions that access data via offsets, sizeof() etc?
> > It seems to me that this structure is sent over the wire via RPC to the
> > windows clients. In this case You must _under no circumstances_ modify
> > the struct because this breaks all kinds of windows functions. Most of the
> > structures are documented in the various MS PlatformSDKs.
> >
>
> Incorect. This structure (SAM_ACCOUNT) is used only inside samba, it is not
> sent over the wire.
>
> Feel free to add a 'plaintext password' feild to it, and to read it in a patch
> to pdb_ldap.c. (I would add a flag like we have for homedir and the like, and only update if it is actually set).
>
> Andrew Bartlett
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