3.0.14 ok for Monday release [was Re: w2k3 sp1 and 'security = domain']

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Sun Apr 10 05:08:08 GMT 2005


On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 05:50:18PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> | Volker,
> |
> | This is what I found out tonight.
> |
> |     The issue:  W2k3 sp1 now disallows anonymous
> |     samr_connectX()    connects (even with schannel).
> |
> |     To reproduce: join winbindd using 'security = domain'
> |     to a Win2003 SP1 domain and then run 'wbinfo -u'.
> |
> | Apparently to fix this in the current SAMBA_3_0 code you have
> | to use a non-anonymous connection *and* disable schannel.
> | Or maybe the schannel credentials take precedence over the
> | ones used to connect to IPC$.  In either case, schannel
> | is not enough to get past the ACCESS_DENIED on the samr_connectX()
> | call.
> 
> I talked this over with Jeremy some on Friday.  What we will
> do in 3.0.14 to deal with the problem is to have winbindd
> log a DEBUG(0,("...")) message when we think that we might be
> encountering this issue.  The suggested woraround is either
> (a) move to security = ads, or (b) set 'client schannel = no'
> and wbinfo --set-auth-user.
> 
> The risks of disabling schannel on everything but \netlogon
> are too high.  We could break a lot of installations not using
> Windows 2003 SP1 DCs.
> 
> I'm leaving schannel disabled on the \lsarpc pipe however
> since this does affect 'security = ads'.
> 
> So I'm planning on the releasing 3.0.14 on Monday (from
> the Usenix Technical conference in Anaheim).

We need to check JohnT's segfault isn't a problem in the RELEASE
branch before we ship I'm afraid.

Jeremy.


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