smb signatures - per tcp session or per smb session sequence numbers?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Feb 23 08:50:40 GMT 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 23:42 -0600, Steven French wrote:
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> When two different user smb session (smb_uids) are multiplexed over one tcp
> session from a single client to a single server - signing does not appear
> to work on the first request for what will be the second uid ie the 2nd
> SessionSetup request (at least from the Linux client).
> 
> There seems to be evidence that the sequence number used for signing is
> global to the tcp session (not to the smb uid - smb session as I had
> implemented).

Correct.  This of course implies that the security of the whole session
is as good or bad as the *first* password to pass over it.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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