[Samba] Is RODC password replication different from the windows version by design or is it a bug?

[Adam Minski]

On 03/29/2019 10:54 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-03-29 at 10:44 +0100, Adam Minski wrote:
>>
>> On 03/29/2019 10:37 AM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2019-03-29 at 10:16 +0100, Adam Minski via samba wrote:
>>>> On 03/28/2019 05:32 PM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>>> Should the samba RDOC act like the windows version or is it different
>>>>>> by design?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes it should and there is a bug report for something similar already,
>>>>> see here: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13377
>>>>>
>>>>> I know that is for members of the denied group, but the substance is
>>>>> the same, users are not getting authenticated on a RODC from a RWDC.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you please add to that bug report ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Rowland
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Rowland, that's exactly the topic. Garming Sam has commented it
>>>> yesterday, the issue is that kerberos forwarding isn't implemented for
>>>> now. That is exactly what wee seeing, authentication works __after__
>>>> (from the second attempt on) the initial password sync is done, the
>>>> first attempt isn't proxied.
>>>
>>> It should work, as long as you are using the internal Heimdal KDC, and
>>> I thought we even had tests for that.  The KDC propagates up a special
>>> error code to the processing layer to say 'please proxy this packet to
>>> a full DC' to trigger that
>>
>> We use the internal Heimdal KDC, and it doesn't work, at least for
>> version 4.9.4. Is there any stuff I can test? Or can you give me an
>> entry point to the code? Thanks.
> 
> Have a look in source4/kdc/kdc-heimdal.c and source4/kdc/kdc-process.c
> for how it gets the error HDB_NOT_FOUND_HERE and turns that into
> KDC_PROXY_REQUEST, which triggers sending it off to another DC.
> 
> A packet trace should be your first task to confirm nothing is being
> sent on the any DC.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 


Well, my fault. The client isn't trying Kerberos, it's trying LDAP 
simple binds, which works using MS RODCs, but not for Samba RODCs.

Sorry for that.
Adam