samrValidatePassword samdb_set_password()

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:21 +0200, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote: 
> Hi tridge,
> 
> the "samdb_set_password" call is currently a disaster in my eyes. The 
> major part of the functionality should move to our "password_hash" 
> module. This is strictly needed since without it the setting of 
> passwords over LDB/LDAP doesn't enforce the policies (only those set 
> over SAMR and kpasswd do at the moment). 

Well, we could just have a new module call back to the existing code,
rather than try a major rework here. 

> I started an experimental patch 
> in a personal branch - but it needs testing and more rework.
> 
> Very good to inform me about this "samrValidatePassword" call - I don't 
> know what would be the best to implement this. One possibility would be 
> to first add a temporary user account (I imagine that the "account" 
> parameter is exactly the name for this one - a type of hash), try to set 
> the password, let the password be checked by the "password_hash", delete 
> this created account - and return the result.

I really don't think that's a good idea.  We need a way (perhaps an
extended operation) to check this without doing writes to the DB. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.

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