Hi,

One of my customers has had issues with authentication Vista machines when
using the Samba 2.0 winbind authenticator program in Squid. The NTLM
authenticator returned:
Login for user [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed due to [Invalid
parameter]

auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth
--helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp

The issue is that the KK string sent by the client can, if the DNS name of
the AD domain is quite long, contain an NTLM response section >256 bytes,
which can't be copied into the buffer space in the external program. This is
only an issue if NTLMv2 authentication is the minimum negotiated with the
client (i.e. Vista default).

I ended up writing a hack in Squid's auth_ntlm.cc to trim the packet back as
some of the fields in the packet sent by IE are optional and could be
removed.
(http://linux-blog.project76.co.uk/archives/2008_10_01_archive.html)

This is caused by Samba - does anyone know if this will ever be fixed
properly?

Kind regards
Jamie Stallwood
 
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Jamie Stallwood
Security Specialist
Imerja Ltd
 
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