[PATCH] Turn off NETLOGON by default on standalone/member servers

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Feb 25 17:39:22 MST 2015


On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 02:17:27PM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> Our security advisory at
> https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2015-0240 suggests
> 
> > 
> > ========== 
> > Workaround
> > ==========
> > 
> > On Samba versions 4.0.0 and above, add the line:
> > 
> > rpc_server:netlogon=disabled
> > 
> > to the [global] section of your smb.conf. 
> 
> This patch enforces that, turning off NETLOGON when we are not a DC.  
> 
> Jeremy,
> 
> Can you check this doesn't break anything?  (I'm running an autobuild,
> but I'm not sure that will find anything much for this). 

Hmmm. It *looks* right, but how can I check it doesn't
break anything ? Might Windows clients make netlogon
requests to member servers ? I can't think of a reason
it should be running but at least in a Windows network
the netlogon service still runs on member servers.


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