gensec returns the wrong error to kerberos errors like Ticket Expired and clock skew issues

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Nov 4 18:22:08 UTC 2015


On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 10:00:48AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> A capture I have indicates that when a Windows server gets a
> KRB5KRB_AP_ERR_TKT_EXPIRED error it returns
> STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED along with an SPNEGO negTokenTarg with
> the Kerberos error blob in it.
> 
> Samba, and it looks like gensec, folds that down to LOGON_FAILED,
> which makes it very hard for admins to figure out what the real error
> is.
> 
> Is there a bugzilla on this?
> 
> If I get a chance I will try to provide a fix.

I think that is intentional in order to prevent
username guessing attacks.

Does the real error get logged inside Samba
somewhere ?



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