[Samba] NET_SAMLOGON issue

Fabien Chevalier fabien.chevalier at supelec.fr
Thu Oct 16 17:08:48 GMT 2003


Hi all,

I'm having a little trouble with my Samba setup. :-(
I hope some SMB protocol guru will be able to say to me what's going wrong!
I must apologize as it's a bit long and heavy in your mailbox, but this is not a trivial issue
and i think it requires some explanations to be fully understood.

So let's go!

Here is my setup:
 - I use Samba 3.0.1-pre1 as PDC. Domain is called DC-SORRAL.
 - Domain members are Win2K server and WinXP.
 - SAM backend is ldapsam_compat.
 - I can log on as a domain user in both Win2K and WinXP==->Roaming users work Ok.
Note: smb.conf is given as attachment

So i would say a 'common LDAP Samba 3 setup' is up and running.
But now i need to go a bit further.
I'm  trying to have a third party Windows software (called HummingBird DM - that's
a proprietary electronic document management System)  to authenticate it's users using the Samba PDC.
It's supposed to run with Windows NT4 SP4 or later as domain controller, so... I suppose it should run with Samba 3.
(Tell me if i'm wrong :-)).

HummmingBird DM uses a domain account which is in our case 'zzAdmin' with
password '55nm08dk55nm08dk'.

I can log on zzAdmin without issue, but when i tell HummingBird's wizard to use the account 'zzAdmin'
the wizard fails and sends back to me a wrong user name / wrong password error.
So i turn debugging level to 255, defined DEBUG_PASSWORD in auth_sam.c and recompile the whole, and
restart Samba.

Then i begin to analyse the log file:
(note: full log file is gziped as attachment - chosen parts are given below, as the whole is ~6000 lines long)

--SNIP--
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:api_pipe_request(1454)
  Requested \PIPE\NETLOGON
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 4] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:api_rpcTNP(1488)
  api_rpcTNP: NETLOGON op 0x2 - created /tmp/in_NETLOGON_2.10.prs
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 3] rpc_server/srv_pipe.c:api_rpcTNP(1495)
  api_rpcTNP: rpc command: NET_SAMLOGON
--SNIP--

It seems Hummingbird wants to authenticate itself...good news!!

--SNIP--
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_uint32(634)
                      00e4 uni_str_len: 00000007
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:dbg_rw_punival(806)
                      00e8 buffer     : z.z.A.d.m.i.n.
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 9] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_debug(81)
                  0000f6 smb_io_unistr2 uni_wksta_name
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_uint32(634)
                      00f8 uni_max_len: 0000000c
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_uint32(634)
                      00fc undoc      : 00000000
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_uint32(634)
                      0100 uni_str_len: 0000000c
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:dbg_rw_punival(806)
                      0104 buffer     : D.C.-.S.O.R.R.A.L.-.0.6.
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 9] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_debug(81)
                  00011c smb_io_string2 nt_chal_resp
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_uint32(634)
                      011c str_max_len: 00000020
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_uint32(634)
                      0120 undoc      : 00000000
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_uint32(634)
                      0124 str_str_len: 00000020
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_string2(960)
                      0128 buffer     : 5.5.n.m.0.8.d.k.5.5.n.m.0.8.d.k.
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 9] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_debug(81)
                  000148 smb_io_string2 lm_chal_resp
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_uint32(634)
                      0148 str_max_len: 0000000e
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_uint32(634)
                      014c undoc      : 00000000
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_uint32(634)
                      0150 str_str_len: 0000000e
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_string2(960)
                      0154 buffer     : 55NM08DK55NM08
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_uint16(605)
      0162 validation_level: 0003
--SNIP--

HummingBird sends us zzAdmin...seems clever :-)
HummingBird sends us a clear text password...quite strange....as the debugging string 'nt_chal_resp'
would make us think it is rather a NTLM challenge response.

--SNIP--
  sam_password_ok: Checking NTLMv2 password with domain [DC-SORRAL]
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] auth/auth_sam.c:smb_pwd_check_ntlmv2(131)
  Part password (P16) was |
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] lib/util.c:dump_data(1825)
  [000] 83 0D 28 64 3B F5 66 10  23 F9 14 15 80 08 95 40  ..(d;.f. #......@
  Password from client was |
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] lib/util.c:dump_data(1825)
  [000] 35 00 35 00 6E 00 6D 00  30 00 38 00 64 00 6B 00  5.5.n.m. 0.8.d.k.
  [010] 35 00 35 00 6E 00 6D 00  30 00 38 00 64 00 6B 00  5.5.n.m. 0.8.d.k.
  Variable data from client was |
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] lib/util.c:dump_data(1825)
  [000] 35 00 35 00 6E 00 6D 00  30 00 38 00 64 00 6B 00  5.5.n.m. 0.8.d.k.
  Given challenge was |
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] lib/util.c:dump_data(1825)
  [000] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                           ........
  Value from encryption was |
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] lib/util.c:dump_data(1825)
  [000] 29 B5 0F 96 7B 27 70 12  A4 11 76 7C 22 0B 9E 50  )...{'p. ..v|"..P
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 4] auth/auth_sam.c:sam_password_ok(200)
  sam_password_ok: Checking NTLMv2 password without a domain
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] auth/auth_sam.c:smb_pwd_check_ntlmv2(131)
  Part password (P16) was |
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] lib/util.c:dump_data(1825)
  [000] 83 0D 28 64 3B F5 66 10  23 F9 14 15 80 08 95 40  ..(d;.f. #......@
  Password from client was |
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] lib/util.c:dump_data(1825)
  [000] 35 00 35 00 6E 00 6D 00  30 00 38 00 64 00 6B 00  5.5.n.m. 0.8.d.k.
  [010] 35 00 35 00 6E 00 6D 00  30 00 38 00 64 00 6B 00  5.5.n.m. 0.8.d.k.
  Variable data from client was |
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] lib/util.c:dump_data(1825)
  [000] 35 00 35 00 6E 00 6D 00  30 00 38 00 64 00 6B 00  5.5.n.m. 0.8.d.k.
  Given challenge was |
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] lib/util.c:dump_data(1825)
  [000] 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                           ........
  Value from encryption was |
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 100] lib/util.c:dump_data(1825)
  [000] E3 2F 84 BF D8 C3 34 49  AE B0 17 89 84 5F EF BD  ./....4I ....._..
[2003/10/14 16:40:37, 3] auth/auth_sam.c:sam_password_ok(210)
  sam_password_ok: NTLMv2 password check failed
--SNIP--

So this is what i thought of.
Samba treats the cleartext string an NTLMv2 challenge response...which makes
HummingBird fail to authenticate.

It took me a few days to find the issue, and to review the 6000+ lines of log,
as i was a complete newbie with the SMB protocol.
So i would like now if possible the opinion of more knowledged people about NT internals...
as i cannot pursue my analysis any further without external help (I did not find any usefull information
on NT RPCS).

What i would like to know is:
  - if my analysis is right
  - if it is a bug in HummingBird DM auth mechanism
  - if it is a bad assumption in Samba (Is SAM_NETLOGON RPC always using NTLMv2?)
  - if it is an unimplemented dark NT feature in Samba ;-)

...and of course if it is fixable.

I hope somebody out there can help.

Best regards,

Fabien Chevalier
Computer Science Student - www.supelec.fr
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#
# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
#
#
# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
# smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed
# here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options most of which 
# are not shown in this example
#
# Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash) 
# is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
# for commentary and a ; for parts of the config file that you
# may wish to enable
#
# NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command
# "testparm" to check that you have not many any basic syntactic 
# errors. 
#

#======================= Global Settings =======================

[global]

  unix charset = ISO8859-1
  nt acl support = yes

  client ntlmv2 auth = yes
  client lanman auth = no

## Browsing/Identification ###

   workgroup = DC-SORRAL
   netbios name = STR-DON-01
   domain master = yes
   domain logons = yes

# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
   server string = Serveur de Fichiers micro-informatique Sorral

# LDAP support
   ldap admin dn = cn=admin,dc=sorral,dc=duferco-coating,dc=com
   ldap ssl = off
   # start_tls should run on 389, but samba defaults incorrectly to 636
   ldap suffix = dc=sorral,dc=duferco-coating,dc=com
   ldap user suffix = ou=People
   ldap group suffix = ou=Group
   ldap passwd sync = true

# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server
   wins support = yes

# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both
#  wins server = 172.16.0.3

# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.
   dns proxy = no

# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names
# to IP addresses
;   name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

# Needed by NT PDC support
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g nogroup -c 'Machine account' -s /bin/false %u

#Logon settings
logon home = \\%L\%U
logon drive = P:
logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U

#### Debugging/Accounting ####

# This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine
# that connects
   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
   log level = 200

# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).
   max log size = 5000

# If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following
# parameter to 'yes'.
;   syslog only = no

# We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything
# should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log
# through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.
   syslog = 0

# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
   panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d


####### Authentication #######

# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
# in this server for every user accessing the server. See
# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/ServerType.html in the samba-doc
# package for details.
   security = user 

# You may wish to use password encryption.  See the section on
# 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.
   encrypt passwords = true

# If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what
# password database type you are using.  
   passdb backend = tdbsam ldapsam_compat:ldap://localhost
   ;passdb backend = tdbsam
   obey pam restrictions = no

;   guest account = nobody
;   invalid users = root

# This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix
# password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
# passdb is changed.
;   unix password sync = no

# For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following
# parameters must be set (thanks to Augustin Luton <aluton at hybrigenics.fr> for
# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Potato).
   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .

# This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes
# when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in
# 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'.
;   pam password change = no


########## Printing ##########

# If you want to automatically load your printer list rather
# than setting them up individually then you'll need this
;   load printers = yes

# lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the
# printcap file
;   printing = bsd
;   printcap name = /etc/printcap

# CUPS printing.  See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the
# cupsys-client package.
   printing = cups
   printcap name = cups

# When using [print$], root is implicitly a 'printer admin', but you can
# also give this right to other users to add drivers and set printer
# properties
;   printer admin = @ntadmin


######## File sharing ########

# Name mangling options
;   preserve case = yes
;   short preserve case = yes


############ Misc ############

# Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration
# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name
# of the machine that is connecting
;   include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m

# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.
# See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/speed.html
# for details
# You may want to add the following on a Linux system:
#         SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

# The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package
# installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
# working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba.
;   message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' &

# Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this
# machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you
# must set this to 'no'; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended.
  domain master = auto

# Some defaults for winbind (make sure you're not using the ranges
# for something else.)
;   idmap uid = 10000-20000
;   idmap gid = 10000-20000
;   template shell = /bin/bash

#======================= Share Definitions =======================

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no

# By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change next
# parameter to 'yes' if you want to be able to write to them.
   writable = yes

# File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
   create mask = 0700

# Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to
# create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775.
   directory mask = 0700

#créons le répertoire perso au cas ou il n'existe pas
   root preexec = mkdir /home/%u; chown %u /home/%u; chmod 700 /home/%u;
 


# Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons
# (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.)
[netlogon]
   comment = Network Logon Service
   path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
   guest ok = yes
   writable = no
   share modes = no

#[printers]
#   comment = All Printers
#   browseable = no
#   path = /tmp
#   printable = yes
#   public = no
#   writable = no
#   create mode = 0700

# Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable
# printer drivers
[print$]
   comment = Printer Drivers
   path = /var/lib/samba/printers
   browseable = yes
   read only = yes
   guest ok = no
# Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers.
# Replace 'ntadmin' with the name of the group your admin users are
# members of.
;   write list = root, @ntadmin

# A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others.
;[cdrom]
;   comment = Samba server's CD-ROM
;   writable = no
;   locking = no
;   path = /cdrom
;   public = yes

# The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the
#	cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain
#	an entry like this:
#
#       /dev/scd0   /cdrom  iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user   0 0
#
# The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the
#
# If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD
#	is mounted on /cdrom
#
;   preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom
;   postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom

[Profiles]
	path = /users/profiles
	nt acl support =  yes
	profile acls = Yes
	browsable = no
	writable = yes
	directory mask = 700
	create mask = 700
# This script can be enabled to create profile directories on the fly
# You may want to turn off guest access if you enable this, as it
# hasn't been thoroughly tested.
#        root preexec = PROFILEDIR=/users/profiles; if [ ! -e $PROFILEDIR/%u ]; \
#          then cp -R $PROFILEDIR/default $PROFILEDIR/%u; \
#          chmod -R 700 $PROFILEDIR/%u; chown -R %u:%g $PROFILEDIR/%u; fi

#########################Partie Spécifique Sorral#############################

#Faux virus - Pour test des antivirus
[Test Antivirus]
    path = /var/eicar
    read only = yes
    user = @utilisateurs

#Section des groupes

#Le public
[public]
    path = /users/groups/public
    browseable = yes
    writable = yes

    #L'option suivante assure que les acls par défaut seront bien héritées
    #Les acls de la doivent sont positionnées ainsi

    ## file: public
    ## owner: root
    ## group: root
    #user::rwx
    #group::---
    #group:users:rwx
    #mask::rwx
    #other::---
    #default:user::rwx
    #default:group::---
    #default:group:users:rwx
    #default:mask::rwx
    #default:other::---

    #grace aux deux commandes suivantes
    #  setfacl -s u::rwx,g::---,o::---,g:users:rwx public
    #  setfacl -d -s u::rwx,g::---,o::---,g:users:rwx public

    inherit acls = yes
    #Seuls les membres du groupe "users" ont le droit d'accéder au public
    #Donc tous les utilisateurs humains doivent etre dans le groupe users
    valid users = @utilisateurs

#Voici un exemple de groupe
[informatique]
    path = /users/groups/informatique
    browseable = yes
    writable = yes

    #L'option suivante assure que les acls par défaut seront bien héritées
    #Les acls de la doivent sont positionnées ainsi

    ## file: informatique
    ## owner: root
    ## group: root
    #user::rwx
    #group::---
    #group:info:rwx
    #mask::rwx
    #other::---
    #default:user::rwx
    #default:group::---
    #default:group:info:rwx
    #default:mask::rwx
    #default:other::---

    #grace aux deux commandes suivantes
    #  setfacl -s u::rwx,g::---,o::---,g:info:rwx informatique
    #  setfacl -d -s u::rwx,g::---,o::---,g:info:rwx informatique

    inherit acls = yes
    #Seuls les membres du groupe "info" ont le droit d'accéder à ce répertoire
    valid users = @info


#partages spécifiques
[ghost]
   comment = Images disques des PC clients
   path = /users/ghost
   valid users = root
   public = no
   writable = yes
   printable = no
   browseable = yes




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