[PATCHES] site-aware Kerberos authentication during domain join

[Andreas Schneider]

On Thursday 03 March 2016 09:44:46 Uri Simchoni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Attached please find a fix for
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11769.
> 
> The bug description explains why this may be important.
> 
> The fix enables site-aware Kerberos during execution of "net ads join
> -k", even if winbindd is not started (so the locator cannot be used).
> 
> This works only if the user specified the domain's DNS name (which is
> assumed to be equal to the Kerberos realm). If the user didn't specify
> it (e.g. only specified flat domain name or server to use), we need to
> securely contact a DC to determine the domain's DNS name, so we cannot
> pre-configure Kerberos.
> 
> Review appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Uri.

I think this is something for WHATSNEW.txt ... :)

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