lsa open policy argument

[Tim Potter]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 22:34 -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:07:12 +1000
> Tim Potter <tpot at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > the argument that is used for lsa_OpenPolicy() due to the string
> > attribute bug.
> 
> Just curious but what is the "string attribute bug"? Is it a Windows
> thing or is it specific to Samba?

Whoever wrote the original IDL for the OpenPolicy function forgot the
[string] attribute on the system_name parameter which means that you
only see a pointer to a single uint16 on the wire, instead of an array
of uint16s.

>From Samba's IDL:

NTSTATUS lsa_OpenPolicy (
	[in,unique]       uint16 *system_name,
	[in]   lsa_ObjectAttribute *attr,
	[in]       uint32 access_mask,
	[out]  policy_handle *handle
);

vs 

NTSTATUS lsa_OpenPolicy2 (
	[in,unique]      [string,charset(UTF16)] uint16 *system_name,
	[in]  lsa_ObjectAttribute *attr,
	[in]      uint32 access_mask,
	[out] policy_handle *handle
);



Tim.