NTLMSSP anonyance in Samba4

[tridge at samba.org]

Andrew,

 > What I don't understand however is why we need to accept zero-length
 > credentials here.  It seems wrong.

It's because the alter context PDU has two purposes. It can be used to
either change interface (for example, change from LSA to SAMR on the
fly) or to change credentials. In this case it was being used to
change interface in the RPC-ALTERCONTEXT test, and the credentials
were zero length.

Cheers, Tridge