Microsoft Enforcement Mode

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Jan 30 20:55:42 UTC 2022


On Sun, 2022-01-30 at 17:41 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Sunday, 30 January 2022 08:47:50 CET Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical 
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2022-01-29 at 11:41 +0100, Stefan Kania via samba-technical
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > I just read, that Microsoft uses a new Enforcement Mode on all MS DCs to
> > > protect the DC against CVE-2021-42287 and CVE-2021-42278. The
> > > Enforcement Mode can be deactivated until June, then MS will force it on
> > > all DCs.
> > > But with this mode active it's no longer possible to join a Linux-Client
> > > to a MS-Domain. I could not find out if this will affect Samba or only
> > > SSSD. If it affect Samba will it affect all Samba-version?
> > 
> > This isn't something that I expected to fail/change based on the
> > intensive discussions I had with Microsoft during development, so I
> > think this is an unintentional regression.
> > 
> > David Mulder is chasing this down via the protocols team.
> > 
> > Samba sets passwords via LDAP typically during the join, so isn't as
> > impacted compared with the tools around sssd (adcli), as I understand
> > it.
> 
> It is relatively new that we set passwords over ldap. We used DCERPC before. I 
> think adcli is also just using LDAP.

The traces I saw were showing an issue with KPASSWD.  David has the
details.

Andrew,

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