[PATCH] Mutual authentication, keytabs, and SMB session keys

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Feb 24 09:18:59 GMT 2003


On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:01:39PM +1100, Luke Howard wrote:
> 
> >You may want to omit the USE_KEYTAB patch to passdb/secrets.c: we don't
> >actually use that, and without support for updating the secret, it may 
> >be of limited use.
> 
> Actually, there are a couple of memory leaks in secrets_fetch_keytab_password(),
> too so if you intend to include it -- let me send you the revised patch. :-)

I remembered why we needed the original password - we need the original 
password so that we can salt it with various domains/principal names.

So while it will work fine for just type 23, I think I'll skip it for now :-)

Andrew Bartlett

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