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Re: [patch] miscellaneous mechglue stuff



On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 17:06 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 23:16 -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 May 2006 11:59:48 +1000
> > Luke Howard <lukeh@PADL.COM> wrote:
> > 
> > > >Mmm, do we REALLY want it 0 or should be just mask off certain bits? I
> > > >recall reading about this but I confess I don't fully understand the
> > > >implications regarding how the flags are communicated in the authenticator
> > > >checksum. With that break mutual?
> > > 
> > > That's a good point, it probably will. Do MS clients do mutual when you
> > > send a non-GSSAPI checksum?
> > > 
> > > We should probably set some default flags, at least:
> > > 
> > > #define GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG 2
> > > #define GSS_C_REPLAY_FLAG 4
> > > #define GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG 8
> > > #define GSS_C_CONF_FLAG 16
> > > #define GSS_C_INTEG_FLAG 32
> > > 
> > > Thoughts?
> > 
> > I don't know. But bare in mind that Andrew is thinking the MD5 checksum
> > issue is specific to a limitation in Samba 3's smbclient. If that's true,
> > then the problem would be limited to SMB servers using stock Heimdal
> > gss_accept_sec_context which is to say it's not terribly important
> > right now.
> 
> At the plugfest, we noticed that at least one other vendor had a similar
> issue.  Unless you want to ship a custom GSSAPI lib (like Samba4's
> lorikeet-heimdal), you end up doing it like this to get at the key for
> signing (and on the server side, you can't get at the PAC etc).
> 
> I would fix Samba3's code, but I'm not sure I'm ready for the political
> flack of shipping a custom kerberos lib with Samba, and the APIs we need
> are not in standard system libs on many (any?) platforms.

I decided to implement this in lorikeet-heimdal, and here is what I
actually got:

http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=lorikeet&rev=539

The GSS_C_MUTUAL flag is what Samba4's Samba3-like client expects.  I've
also tested these changes work with current Samba3.

Andrew Bartlett

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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net

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