Q: winbindd, unqualfied users, & name conflicts (a.k.a "Deathto 'winbind use default domain'!")

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Dave Daugherty wrote:
> My opinion:
> 
> Local users should always take precedence. 
> 
> People should specifically refer to local users as
> <SambaHostName>\localuser, if that is the form the 
> SMB client insists on sending.
> 
> Tacking on default domains and/or stripping 
> domains to/from user names and "trying them out" is playing
> fast and loose with user identity and
> is a breeding ground for potential security holes.

Dave,

I don't think you fully understand the problem.  We're
talking about Unix shell tools, not SMB clients.  A local
username is always unqualfied when sent by Unix tools like
'id' to query group membership.  A domain user may or may
not be qualfied so how do you know an unqualified domain
user from a normal local user?   For example,

With 'winbind use default domain = no'

$ id
uid=780(jerry) gid=100(users)
groups=16(dialout),33(video),100(users),10001(BUILTIN\users),
10007(SUSE10\developers)

With 'winbind use default domain = yes'

$ id
uid=780(jerry) gid=100(users)
groups=16(dialout),33(video),100(users)

the problem is that when guesing the domain, we assume
the Windows domain name.  Prior to querying group membership,
we do a lookup_name() query to the DC for this name
(DOMAIN\jerry) which fails since it is a local user.
So any local groups are excluded from the getgroups()
return.

*This* ambiguity is why I will be removing the geuss
work from the server code in 3.0.24.





cheers, jerry
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