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safe for using our headers and linking with C++ modules. Stops us
from using C++ reserved keywords in our code.
Jeremy
(This used to be commit 9506b8e145)
functions so we can funnel through some well known functions. Should help greatly with
malloc checking.
HEAD patch to follow.
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit 620f2e608f)
ago.
This patch re-adds support for 'optional' SMB signing. It also ensures that
we are much more careful about when we enable signing, particularly with
on-the-fly smb.conf reloads.
The client code will now attempt to use smb signing by default, and disable
it if the server doesn't correctly support it.
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit e27b5cbe75)
- NTLM2 support in the server
- KEY_EXCH support in the server
- variable length session keys.
In detail:
- NTLM2 is an extension of NTLMv1, that is compatible with existing
domain controllers (unlike NTLMv2, which requires a DC upgrade).
* This is known as 'NTLMv2 session security' *
(This is not yet implemented on the RPC pipes however, so there may
well still be issues for PDC setups, particuarly around password
changes. We do not fully understand the sign/seal implications of
NTLM2 on RPC pipes.)
This requires modifications to our authentication subsystem, as we
must handle the 'challege' input into the challenge-response algorithm
being changed. This also needs to be turned off for
'security=server', which does not support this.
- KEY_EXCH is another 'security' mechanism, whereby the session key
actually used by the server is sent by the client, rather than being
the shared-secret directly or indirectly.
- As both these methods change the session key, the auth subsystem
needed to be changed, to 'override' session keys provided by the
backend.
- There has also been a major overhaul of the NTLMSSP subsystem, to merge the 'client' and 'server' functions, so they both operate on a single structure. This should help the SPNEGO implementation.
- The 'names blob' in NTLMSSP is always in unicode - never in ascii.
Don't make an ascii version ever.
- The other big change is to allow variable length session keys. We
have always assumed that session keys are 16 bytes long - and padded
to this length if shorter. However, Kerberos session keys are 8 bytes
long, when the krb5 login uses DES.
* This fix allows SMB signging on machines not yet running MIT KRB5 1.3.1. *
- Add better DEBUG() messages to ntlm_auth, warning administrators of
misconfigurations that prevent access to the privileged pipe. This
should help reduce some of the 'it just doesn't work' issues.
- Fix data_blob_talloc() to behave the same way data_blob() does when
passed a NULL data pointer. (just allocate)
REMEMBER to make clean after this commit - I have changed plenty of data structures...
(This used to be commit f3bbc87b0d)
I think (my changes haven't affected this I believe). Initial support on the
server side for smbclient. Still doesn't work for w2k clients I think...
Work in progress..... (don't change).
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit e5714edc23)
idmap-and-the-rest from HEAD.
These are correctness fixes that were already in 3.0, and a memory leak fix.
The pdb_ldap changes are held back at jerry's request (he is also playing
with pdb_ldap ATM).
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit c7d5e336bd)
We really need idmap_ldap to have a good solution with ldapsam, porting
it from the prvious code is beeing made, the code is really simple to do
so I am confident it is not a problem to commit this code in.
Not committing it would have been worst.
I really would have been able to finish also the group code, maybe we can
put it into a followin release after 3.0.0 even if it may be an upgrade
problem.
The code has been tested and seem to work right, more testing is needed for
corner cases.
Currently winbind pdc (working only for users and not for groups) is
disabled as I was not able to make a complete group code replacement that
works somewhat in a week (I have a complete patch, but there are bugs)
Simo.
(This used to be commit 0e58085978)
a pstrcpy/fstrcpy or at most a safe_strcpy().
These have the advantage of being compiler-verifiable.
Get these out of the way, along with a rewrite of 'get_short_archi' in the
spoolss client and server. (This pushes around const string pointers, rather
than copied strings).
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit 32fb801ddc)
- user_ok() and user_in_group() now take a list of groups, instead of
looking for the user in the members of all groups.
- The 'server_info' returned from the authentication is now kept around
- in future we won't copy the sesion key, username etc, we will just
referece them directly.
- rhosts upgraded to use the SAM if possible, otherwise fake up based on
getpwnam().
- auth_util code to deal with groups upgraded to deal with non-winbind domain
members again.
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit 74b5436c75)
The work here includes:
- metze' set/changed patch, which avoids making changes to ldap on unmodified
attributes.
- volker's group mapping in passdb patch
- volker's samsync stuff
- volkers SAMR changes.
- mezte's connection caching patch
- my recent changes (fix magic root check, ldap ssl)
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit 2044d60bbe)
This time its the pdb_getsampwuid() function - which was only being used by the
SAMR rpc subsystem to gain a 'user session key'. This 'user session key' is
actually generated at login time, and the other changes here simply move that
data around.
This also means that (when I check some details) we will be able to use the
user session key, even when we are not actually the DC, becouse its one of the
components of the info3 struct returned on logon.
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit 799ac01fe0)
Samba (ab)uses the returns from getpwnam() a lot - in particular it keeps
them around for a long time - often past the next call...
This adds a getpwnam_alloc and a getpwuid_alloc to the collection.
These function as expected, returning a malloced structure that can be
free()ed with passwd_free(&passwd).
This patch also cuts down on the number of calls to getpwnam - mostly by
taking advantage of the fact that the passdb interface is already
case-insensiteve.
With this patch most of the recursive cases have been removed (that I know
of) and the problems are reduced further by not using the sys_ interface
in the new code. This means that pointers to the cache won't be affected.
(This is a tempoary HACK, I intend to kill the password cache entirly).
The only change I'm a little worried about is the change to
rpc_server/srv_samr_nt.c for private groups. In this case we are getting
groups from the new group mapping DB. Do we still need to check for private
groups? I've toned down the check to a case sensitve match with the new code,
but we might be able to kill it entirly.
I've also added a make_modifyable_passwd() function, that copies a passwd
struct into the form that the old sys_getpw* code provided. As far as I can
tell this is only actually used in the pass_check.c crazies, where I moved
the final 'special case' for shadow passwords (out of _Get_Pwnam()).
The matching case for getpwent() is dealt with already, in lib/util_getent.c
Also included in here is a small change to register the [homes] share at vuid
creation rather than just in one varient of the session setup. (This picks
up the SPNEGO cases). The home directory is now stored on the vuid, and I
am hoping this might provide a saner way to do %H substitions.
TODO: Kill off remaining Get_Pwnam_Modify calls (they are not needed), change
the remaining sys_getpwnam() callers to use getpwnam_alloc() and move
Get_Pwnam to return an allocated struct.
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit 1d86c7f942)
Thou shalt not reference SAM_ACCOUNT members directly - always use
pdb_get/pdb_set.
This is achived by making the whole of SAM_ACCOUNT have a .private member,
where the real members live. This caught a pile of examples, and these have
beeen fixed.
The pdb_get..() functions are 'const' (have been for some time) and this
required a few small changes to constify other functions.
I've also added some debugs to the pdb get and set, they can be removed if
requested.
I've rewritten the copy_id2x_to_sam_pass() functions to use the new passdb
interface, but I need the flags info to do it properly.
The pdb_free_sam() funciton now blanks out the LM and NT hashes, and as such
I have removed many extra 'samr_clear_sam_passwd(smbpass)' calls as a result.
Finally, any and all testing is always appriciated - but the basics seem to
work.
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit d3dd28f6c4)
members (such as uid and gid). This way we will be able to
keep ourselves from writing out default smb.conf settings when
the admin doesn't want to, That part is not done yet.
Tested compiles with ldap/tdb/smbpasswd. Tested connection with smbpasswd
backend.
oh...and smbpasswd doesn'y automatically expire accounts after 21 days
from the last password change either now. Just ifdef'd out that code
in build_sam_account().
Will merge updates into 2.2 as they are necessary.
jerry
(This used to be commit f0d4379115)
per-share. I beleive that almost all the things that this could have done on
a per-share basis can be done with other tools, like 'force user'.
Almost all the user's of this paramater used it as a global anyway...
While this is one step at a time, I hope it will allow me to considerably
simplfy the make_connection() code, particularly for the user-level security
case.
This already removes an absolute truckload of extra attempted password lookups
on the guest account.
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit 8e708332ed)
This changes the way we process guest logons - we now treat them as normal
logons, but set the 'guest' flag. In particular this is needed becouse Win2k
will do an NTLMSSP login with username "", therefore missing our previous guest
connection code - this is getting a pain to do as a special case all over the
shop.
Tridge: We don't seem to be setting a guest bit for NTLMSSP, in either the
anonymous or authenticated case, can you take a look at this?
Also some cleanups in the check_password() code that should make some of the
debugs clearer.
Various other minor cleanups:
- change the session code to just take a vuser, rather than having to do a
vuid lookup on vuser.vuid
- Change some of the global_client_caps linking
- Better debug in authorise_login(): show the vuid.
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit 62f4e4bd0a)
code.
In particular this assists tpot in some of his work, becouse it provides the
connection between the authenticaion and the vuid generation.
Major Changes:
- Fully malloc'ed structures.
- Massive rework of the code so that all structures are made and destroyed
using malloc and free, rather than hanging around on the stack.
- SAM_ACCOUNT unix uids and gids are now pointers to the same, to allow them
to be declared 'invalid' without the chance that people might get ROOT by
default.
- kill off some of the "DOMAIN\user" lookups. These can be readded at a more
appropriate place (probably domain_client_validate.c) in the future. They
don't belong in session setups.
- Massive introduction of DATA_BLOB structures, particularly for passwords.
- Use NTLMSSP flags to tell the backend what its getting, rather than magic
lenghths.
- Fix winbind back up again, but tpot is redoing this soon anyway.
- Abstract much of the work in srv_netlog_nt back into auth helper functions.
This is a LARGE change, and any assistance is testing it is appriciated.
Domain logons are still broken (as far as I can tell) but other functionality
seems
intact.
Needs testing with a wide variety of MS clients.
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit f70fb819b2)
In particular this commit focuses on:
Changing the Get_Pwnam code so that it can work in a const-enforced
environment.
While these changes have been mildly tested, and are pretty small, any
assistance in this is appreciated.
----
These changes allow for 'const' in the Samba tree.
There are a number of good reasons to do this:
- I want to allow the SAM_ACCOUNT structure to move from wasteful
pstrings and fstrings to allocated strings. We can't do that if
people are modifying these outputs, as they may well make
assumptions about getting pstrings and fstrings
- I want --with-pam_smbpass to compile with a slightly sane
volume of warnings, currently its pretty bad, even in 2.2
where is compiles at all.
- Tridge assures me that he no longer opposes 'const religion'
based on the ability to #define const the problem away.
- Changed Get_Pwnam(x,y) into two variants (so that the const
parameter can work correctly): - Get_Pwnam(const x) and
Get_Pwnam_Modify(x).
- Reworked smbd/chgpasswd.c to work with these mods, passing
around a 'struct passwd' rather than the modified username
(This used to be commit e7634f81c5)
smbd/password.c: We don't use globals here anymore
smbd/reply.c: Tidyness, global_myworkgroup must die!
smbd/service.c: Move some of the make_connection code into a helper
function.
(This used to be commit 15c87e404f)
samba-technical a few weeks ago.
The idea here is to standardize the checking of user names and passwords,
thereby ensuring that all authtentications pass the same standards. The
interface currently implemented in as
nt_status = check_password(user_info, server_info)
where user_info contains (mostly) the authentication data, and server_info
contains things like the user-id they got, and their resolved user name.
The current ugliness with the way the structures are created will be killed
the next revision, when they will be created and malloced by creator functions.
This patch also includes the first implementation of NTLMv2 in HEAD, but which
needs some more testing. We also add a hack to allow plaintext passwords to be
compared with smbpasswd, not the system password database.
Finally, this patch probably reintroduces the PAM accounts bug we had in
2.2.0, I'll fix that once this hits the tree. (I've just finished testing
it on a wide variety of platforms, so I want to get this patch in).
(This used to be commit b30b6202f3)
not change behaviour.
This should make my later diffs smaller, where I actualy start cleaning up this
mess...
Andrew Bartlett
(This used to be commit 04f090c224)
This commit gets rid of all our old codepage handling and replaces it with
iconv. All internal strings in Samba are now in "unix" charset, which may
be multi-byte. See internals.doc and my posting to samba-technical for
a more complete explanation.
(This used to be commit debb471267)
years old) bug when chainging a sessionsetup_and_X and tcon together.
The wrong username was being entered into the tdb, even though the
correct user was used for accessing files. This is related to the fact
that authorise_login() is not used for sessionsetup, but only for tcon
auths.
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit 0187cd6aef)
remove global static PAM variables, and to tidy up the PAM internals code.
Now looks like the rest of Samba.
Still needs testing.
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit 1648ac64a7)
horrid utmp hostname parameter - now uses the client name instead.
Also tidies up some of the unencrypted password checking when PAM
is compiled in.
FIXME ! An pam_accountcheck() is being called even when smb encrypted
passwords are negotiated. Is this the correct thing to do when winbindd
is running ! This needs *SEVERE* testing....
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit 071c799f47)
now in pipe struct (where used) rather than user_struct.
Secured machine account password changing in srv_netlog_nt.c - ensure
that only the given machine can change its own password. May need to
free this up later for NT admin tools, but this is a fail-safe secure
position for now.
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit 46b12f2275)
source/Makefile.in
- changes to ctags and etags rules that somehow got lost along the way.
source/include/proto.h
- make proto
source/smbd/sec_ctx.c
source/smbd/password.c
- merge debugs for debugging user groups and NT token stuff.
source/lib/util_str.c
- capitalise domain name returned from parse_domain_user()
source/nsswitch/wb_client.c
- fix broken conditional in debug statement.
source/include/rpc_secdes.h
source/include/rpc_spoolss.h
source/printing/nt_printing.c
source/lib/util_seaccess.c
- fix printer permission bugs related to ACE masks for printers.
This adds mapping of generic access rights to object specific
rights for NT printers. Still need to work out whether or not to
ignore ACEs with certain flags set, though. See comments in
util_seaccess.c:check_ace() for details.
source/printing/nt_printing.c
source/printing/printing.c
- use PRINTER_ACCESS_ADMINISTER instead of JOB_ACCESS_ADMINISTER
until we sort out printer/printjob permission stuff.
(This used to be commit 1dba9c5cd1)
to search for a DC to authenticate to using the "*" syntax than ensure
that for the first hour after the password change is searches for the
PDC using the 1B name not the 1C name as domain replication may not
have occured.
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit c25533de99)
statement after an 'if'. Tracking this down took 4 hours from my life and ANDREW I WANT
THEM BACK !!!!! :-).
include/smb.h smbd/password.c: Fixed the bug veritas reported with realloc of the validated_users
array growing without bounds. This is now a linked list as god (Andrew) intended :-).
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit 346f2f9206)
Currently the only backend which works is smbpasswd (tdb, LDAP, and NIS+)
are broken, but they were somewhat broken before. :)
The following functions implement the storage manipulation interface
/*The following definitions come from passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c */
BOOL pdb_setsampwent (BOOL update);
void pdb_endsampwent (void);
SAM_ACCOUNT* pdb_getsampwent (void);
SAM_ACCOUNT* pdb_getsampwnam (char *username);
SAM_ACCOUNT* pdb_getsampwuid (uid_t uid);
SAM_ACCOUNT* pdb_getsampwrid (uint32 rid);
BOOL pdb_add_sam_account (SAM_ACCOUNT *sampass);
BOOL pdb_update_sam_account (SAM_ACCOUNT *sampass, BOOL override);
BOOL pdb_delete_sam_account (char* username);
There is also a host of pdb_set..() and pdb_get..() functions for
manipulating SAM_ACCOUNT struct members. Note that the struct
passdb_ops {} has gone away. Also notice that struct smb_passwd
(formally in smb.h) has been moved to passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c
and is not accessed outisde of static internal functions in this
file. All local password searches should make use of the the SAM_ACCOUNT
struct and the previously mentioned functions.
I'll write some documentation for this later. The next step is to fix
the TDB passdb backend, then work on spliting the backends out into
share libraries, and finally get the LDAP backend going.
What works and may not:
o domain logons from Win9x works
o domain logons from WinNT 4 works
o user and group enumeration
as implemented by Tim works
o file and print access works
o changing password from
Win9x & NT ummm...i'll fix this tonight :)
If I broke anything else, just yell and I'll fix it. I think it
should be fairly quite.
-- jerry
(This used to be commit 0b92d0838e)
authorising logins. If a user connected to a share as guest, then
the snum was getting flagged as "force guest", meaning that all
subsequent connections to it, even under a different vuid, would
be bounced to guest.
This explains several very hard to reproduce access denied bugs,
and as the NT client also has bugs in that it will sometimes
erroneously use guest instead of the correct vuid on an IPC$
connection lead to a *very* hard problem to find.
This fix should be propagated into all branches (TNG/Applience
take note) and I'll also make a separate patch availalble on the
samba-technical list.
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit 0264fdafe9)
Added a become_root()/unbecome_root() (push/pop security context)
around the initgroups() call to ensure it would succeed. Hmmm - I
wonder if this call being done as non-root might explain any "group access"
bugs we've had in the past....
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit 06a65972e8)
with the current user. This will allow se_access_check() to quickly do
a SD check without having to translate uid/gid's to SIDs.
Still needs work on pipe calls.
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit e28d01b744)
get ready and fix se_access_check().
Added cannonical lookup_name(), lookup_sid(), uid_to_sid(), gid_to_sid()
functions that look via winbind first the fall back on local lookup.
All Samba should use these rather than trying to call winbindd code
directly.
Added NT_USER_TOKEN struct in user_struct, contains list of NT sids
associated with this user.
se_access_check() should use this (cached) value rather than attempting
to do the same thing itself when given a uid/gid pair.
More work needs to be done to preserve these things accross security
context changes (especially with the tricky pipe problem) but I'm
beginning to see how this will be done..... probably by registering
a new vuid for an authenticated RPC pipe and not treating the
pipe calls specially.
More thoughts needed - but we're almost there...
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit 5e5cc6efe2)
place to do this, not in smbd/passwd.c
Please don't change this without asking first, I have run this past
Andrew so talk to him (I'm on vacation next week).
I also removed the g_newXXX macros. There are essentially a private C extension,
not used anywhere else in the code, and add no functionality over malloc(XX)
and make the code harder to understand (everyone knows what malloc does).
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit e1b1b6fb67)
jeremy, the intent is to call se_access_check() with usr-sid, grp-sid,
array-of-group-rids (but array-of-group-sids would do).
please do look at smbd/lanman.c's api_NetWkstaGetInfo, it will show you
that we really do need to store the entire NET_USER_INFO_3 structure.
then again, api_NetWkstaGetInfo is only used by win9x so who cares :)
(This used to be commit bd34f65239)
as there is no infrastructure for it. Replaced it with a dynamic array
of group SIDs plus a user.
passdb/passdb.c: Added setup_user_sids() function. This is where the lookup should be done,
eventually calling winbind.
smbd/password.c: Changed to call setup_user_sids(). Removed spurious DEBUG(0) statements.
smbd/reply.c: Removed extra parameter to register_vuid().
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit 425f4ad9a5)
this adds "#define OLD_NTDOMAIN 1" in lots of places. Don't panic -
this isn't permanent, it should go after another few merge steps have
been done
(This used to be commit 92109d7b3c)
we needed to accept usernames of the form DOMAIN/user, which means we
needed to pass the domain to a getpwnam() like routine in certain
critical spots.
What I'd rather do is get rid of "char *user" everywhere and use the
new userdom_struct, but that will have to wait a few days.
(This used to be commit 8b7a10febe)
userdom_struct. As the name implies this also contains a domain
(unused at the moment).
This will be important shortly, as operation in appliance mode needs
the domain to be always carried with the username.
(This used to be commit ee8546342d)
added a new utility fn file_lines_slashcont() which is used to handle
files that treat a \ followed by a newline as a blank
(This used to be commit 384ecd9d66)
assumption that we have one socket everywhere
while doing so I discovered a few bugs!
1) the clientgen session retarget code if used from smbd or nmbd would
cause a crash as it called close_sockets() which closed our main
socket! fixed by removing close_sockets() completely - it is unnecessary
2) the caching in client_addr() and client_name() was bogus - it could
easily get fooled and give the wrong result. fixed.
3) the retarget could could recurse, allowing an easy denial of
service attack on nmbd. fixed.
(This used to be commit 5937ab14d2)
on the glibc source code and are safer than the traditional popen as
they don't use a shell to exec the requested command. Now we have
these functions they can be tightened up (environment etc.) as required
to make a safe popen. It should now be safe to add the environement
variable loading code to loadparm.c
Jeremy.
(This used to be commit b52e92b09d)
This fixes our netbios scope handling. We now have a 'netbios scope' option
in smb.conf and the scope option is removed from make_nmb_name()
this was prompted by a bug in our PDC finding code where it didn't append
the scope to the query of the '*' name.
(This used to be commit b563be824b)
I also fixed up the lookup_pdc_name() code so that it now works, even
with a NT server that insists on replying to udp/138.
The method I used to match packets was to use the mailslot string as a
datagram ID. The true dgm_id doesn't work as NT doesn't set it
correctly. uggh.
PS: Jeremy, I had to change your code quite a bit, are you sure this
worked with a Samba PDC?? The code looked broken, it got the offsets
wrong in the SMB portion of the packet and filled in the IP
incorrectly.
(This used to be commit 32f66f4ea6)
clash with gnu readline library.
fixed issue with [homes] service not being there - call lp_add_home()
just before starting the msrpc processing.
(This used to be commit 054195df9b)
done a minimal amout of clean-up in the Makefile, removing unnecessary
modules from the link stage. this is not complete, yet, and will
involve some changes, for example to smbd, to remove dependencies on
the password database API that shouldn't be there. for example,
smbd should not ever call getsmbpwXXX() it should call the Samr or Lsa
API.
this first implementation has minor problems with not reinstantiating
the same services as the caller. the "homes" service is a good example.
(This used to be commit caa5052522)
pdus, and then feeds them over either a "local" function call or a "remote"
function call to an msrpc service. the "remote" msrpc daemon, on the
other side of a unix socket, then calls the same "local" function that
smbd would, if the msrpc service were being run from inside smbd.
this allows a transition from local msrpc services (inside the same smbd
process) to remote (over a unix socket).
removed reference to pipes_struct in msrpc services. all msrpc processing
functions take rpcsrv_struct which is a structure containing state info
for the msrpc functions to decode and create pdus.
created become_vuser() which does everything not related to connection_struct
that become_user() does.
removed, as best i could, connection_struct dependencies from the nt spoolss
printing code.
todo: remove dcinfo from rpcsrv_struct because this stores NETLOGON-specific
info on a per-connection basis, and if the connection dies then so does
the info, and that's a fairly serious problem.
had to put pretty much everything that is in user_struct into parse_creds.c
to feed unix user info over to the msrpc daemons. why? because it's
expensive to do unix password/group database lookups, and it's definitely
expensive to do nt user profile lookups, not to mention pretty difficult
and if you did either of these it would introduce a complication /
unnecessary interdependency. so, send uid/gid/num_groups/gid_t* +
SID+num_rids+domain_group_rids* + unix username + nt username + nt domain
+ user session key etc. this is the MINIMUM info identified so far that's
actually implemented. missing bits include the called and calling
netbios names etc. (basically, anything that can be loaded into
standard_sub() and standard_sub_basic()...)
(This used to be commit aa3c659a8d)
one horrible cut / paste job from smbd, plus a code split of shared
components between the two.
the job is not _yet_ complete, as i need to be able to do a become_user()
call for security reasons. i picked lsarpcd first because you don't
_need_ security on it (microsoft botched so badly on this one, it's not
real. at least they fixed this in nt5 with restrictanonymous=0x2).
fixing this involves sending the current smb and unix credentials down
the unix pipe so that the daemon it eventually goes to can pick them
up at the other end.
i can't believe this all worked!!!
(This used to be commit 2245b0c6d1)
