Opportunities for Samba4 based CIFS proxies

Matt Benjamin matt at linuxbox.com
Thu Nov 3 22:27:12 GMT 2005


I see.  So the client wouldn't know anything about that, correct?

Matt

Love wrote:

>Matt Benjamin <matt at linuxbox.com> writes:
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>>I have a variant of the NPLogon redirection mechanism, which employs
>>krb5.  I do not find it satisfying, however.
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>One version of this would be to forward the NTLM request on the KDC over a
>secure channel, and have the KDC hand back NTLM reply, NTLM session key,
>and afs kerberos ticket.
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>With this, only users that talked to the services get the tickets stolen,
>and those are only valid for N hours. 
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>Compare this to having you key to the afs service compromised that you can
>fake tickets for _all_ users _forever_. Given a service key, its _very_
>simple to print yourself ticket.
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>Even if you just had a service like S4U2Self, that prints you ticket, you
>get a log on what service/users are compromised in case of a problem.
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>Love
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