[Samba] Inconsistency with LANMAN1 and Samba 4.9

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri May 31 18:40:11 UTC 2019


On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 07:09:44PM +0200, Andreas Reichel wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > When adding me as the user with 'smbpasswd -a andreas', and entering a password,
> > > no LANMAN hash is generated. The generated smbpasswd entry always contains 32 X as the first hash.
> > > 
> > > When I do the same with Samba 4.3.11-Ubuntu, the hash IS generated correctly.
> > > 
> > > When I manually add the hash in 4.9.4, I still cannot connect from Win 3.11 and always get access denied.
> > > 
> > > In 4.3.11, it works flawlessly, I can connect from Windows 3.11 without any problem.
> > > 
> > > Question: Is this intended? And if yes, why are there all these options still settable?
> > You may be running into this code in passdb:
> > 
> > bool pdb_set_plaintext_passwd(struct samu *sampass, const char *plaintext)
> > {
> > ...
> >          if (!E_deshash(plaintext, new_lanman_p16)) {
> >                  /* E_deshash returns false for 'long' passwords (> 14
> >                     DOS chars).  This allows us to match Win2k, which
> >                     does not store a LM hash for these passwords (which
> >                     would reduce the effective password length to 14 */
> > 
> >                  if (!pdb_set_lanman_passwd (sampass, NULL, PDB_CHANGED))
> >                          return False;
> >          } else {
> >                  if (!pdb_set_lanman_passwd (sampass, new_lanman_p16, PDB_CHANGED))
> >                          return False;
> >          }
> > ...
> > 
> > Is the password greater that 14 characters ? If so, looks like
> > we won't store it.
> 
> No, it has 8 characters. And I tried to enter the hash manually into the
> smbpasswd, which didn't work either. It is as if samba 4.9.4 would
> ignore lanman completely.

Hmmm. Sounds like a bug. Are you able to use gdb to
walk through the call stack to debug ?

If not someone here will do it, but you might have
to wait a while (log a bug at bugzilla.samba.org
so we can track it) as getting LANMAN auth working
is low priority (it's completely insecure I'm afraid).

Jeremy.



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