[PATCH] security hole in Samba 3.0 start tls handling

[Andrew Bartlett]

"Gerald (Jerry) Carter" wrote:
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> On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
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> > > No, no more than you can indicate SASL preferences in a URL.  You
> > > *could* embed this information in a URI string, but there would be
> > > nothing particularly standard about this, and the LDAP libraries are
> > > unlikely to understand them -- so Samba will still have to parse these
> > > components out of the URL and handle them directly.
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> > That's fine then - but you can put quite a bit in that URL.  (Like bind
> > dn, search suffix and quite a few other things).
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> No.  Having a non-standard LDAP URI would be a bad thing.  Too confusing
> to administer.  Please do not do this.  Find another way to
> specifiy start tls that extending the LDAP URI format (unless you want to
> get it through the LDAPbis WG).

Actually, that was my point.  

Andrew Bartlett

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