Intergrate Heimdal's hdb-ldap and Samba
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Sun Feb 29 05:33:34 GMT 2004
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 16:07, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 15:44, Love wrote:
> > Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> writes:
> >
> > > I realise it is not indented per the rest of heimdal (that was not a big
> > > concern when creating it :-), but I'll happly re-indent if you can give
> > > me your preferred indent command line.
> > >
> > > Is this something that is of interest to Heimdal?
> >
> > Yes, they are. The only thing I find a problem right now is that you change
> > HDBEntry and that can't really be done in a backward compatiable manner (ie
> > running diffrent major version of the kdc in the same realm). The idea we
> > have is that we should have a CHOICE (or something to that effekt).
>
> Oops - I'll need to learn a bit more about how HDBentry works :-)
>
> Is is at all possible to have the hdb directly stored in the database be
> different to that used as an internal data strucutre? I know it removes
> some of the beauty of the system, but in Samba we have found it very,
> very useful. In particular, I extended it to support attributes that
> your kadmin protocol knows about, but your HDB doesn't :-)
Ok, that part missed this patch. It was in the patch I knocked up to
hack-level 12 months ago, but it is something I want to do.
> Also, I would like to have a 'plaintext password' attribute passed
> around, so that we can use it in a number of 'password syncronisation'
> areas.
One thing we probably should allow (but probably not encourage) is
putting plaintext passwords into LDAP, so that Samba, Heimdal,
Cyrus-SASL, HTTP-Digest and the rest can all use the exact same
password, without the multiple-hashes problem. Then each program can
hash it as required.
> > Have you (as in the samba people) given any thought to how to implement AES
> > keys in you LDAP schema ? I guess there might be more enctypes sometime in
> > the future.
>
> That's not an issue for Samba right now - the NTLM authentication scheme
> is stuck at MD4 passwords, and is unlikaly to move further than that.
> That is what Kerberos is for ;-)
>
> Andrew Bartlett
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