What is PCNS?

Luke Howard lukeh at padl.com
Wed Apr 6 07:37:29 GMT 2005


I think PCNS is something else, appears that it uses RPC.

-- Luke

>From: Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE>
>Subject: Re: What is PCNS?
>To: "Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org>
>Cc: samba-technical at samba.org
>Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 09:19:40 +0200
>Organization: Service Network GmbH, Goettingen, Germany
>
>On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:36:32PM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>> Thing is, PCNS (according to the MS SE) runs on the domain controller, 
>> and is accessed via secure RPC.  That'd mean that the client is actually 
>> sending the (encrypted) plaintext password over the wire to the DC.
>
>In SFU there's a unix sync daemon that can send password changes to Unix. Unix
>gets the new plain text password via some encrypted path. I looked at SFU2.0
>once and tried to recompile the Unix part on SuSE. The details suck, but the
>message here is that you can obviously hook into the AD password change
>routines to grab the new plain text, very much like you can with our unix
>password sync mechanism.
>
>Volker
>
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