Authentication through Transitive Trusts

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Apr 10 09:43:11 GMT 2003


On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 12:45, Ken Cross wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:abartlet at samba.org] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 7:08 PM
> > To: Ken Cross
> > Cc: 'Rafal Szczesniak'; 'Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL'
> > Subject: RE: Authentication through Transitive Trusts
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 07:13, Ken Cross wrote:
> > > Part of this problem could be due to the fact that Samba uses NTLM 
> > > instead of Kerberos for user authentication.
> > > 
> > > If the transitive trusts work via Kerberos referrals, I 
> > think we could 
> > > be screwed.
> > 
> > Well, technically it's possible to do NTLM referrals - but as 
> > we just contact our PDC, it's really up to what an MS PDC will do.
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett
> > 
> 
> But that's all a Windows box does, too.  Any idea how transitive trusts
> work for them?  (And they do, very nicely.)

Well, you will have to sniff it then (but if it's inside schannel, that
might be hard ;-)

Andrew Bartlett

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