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

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Feb 26 09:38:54 MST 2015


On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 09:44:40PM +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 20:07 -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Actually, I did not understand. Now that I have looked at MS-NRPC, it
> > seems to me that a Domain Member can only ever be a NETLOGON client
> > and should never function as a NETLOGON server.
> > 
> > Perhaps I am wrong.
> > 
> > In the case of a client trying to authenticate against a local account
> > on the member server, NETLOGON does not get involved at all, it would
> > seem, since there is no need for pass through auth.
> > 
> > Again, perhaps I am wrong.
> 
> This is the position I would take.  I've looked over the calls, and
> there are only 3 or so in source3 that are even able to be called
> without netlogon credentials, and I've never seen them being called. 
> 
> For the longest time, we have quite rightly followed a lead of 'what
> Microsoft does', but I think we should be more proactive and reduce our
> attack surface. 
> 
> But that is also why I was proposing this now, for 4.2.0, when we have
> the most reasonable opportunity to change default behaviour.

I think this change is too late for 4.2.0, as we don't know
what it might break.

Let's ship 4.2.0, then add it in to give lead time for 4.3.0.


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