Fixing libwbclient struct wbcAuthUserInfo

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu May 28 08:50:36 GMT 2009


On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 10:28 +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:23:58PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > I really, really want the NDR encoded 'info3' (actually, I want level 6)
> > transported intact between winbindd and Samba.  Going back and forth via
> > another structure is not only a pain, it is error prone.  If we do this
> > right, and Microsoft adds extra information in the 'reserved' fields (or
> > another level), then we simply pass on that information.  
> 
> The problem with NDR in the winbind pipe protocol is that it
> pulls in GPL code (the NDR base libs) into something that
> will be linked into pam_winbind and nss_winbind.

No, the NDR blob is passed to the caller for it to interpret.  It
remains opaque to wbclient and other users.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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