Do you feel there is a difference between a custom gina and hacked gina or do you consider a hacked gina the same as a custom gina? By hacked I mean a gina that is MS but has had pieces of the actual file binary tweaked and the peheader recalculated and tweaked to account for the changes so the file is still considered valid (i.e. no blown crc's etc). I know when people were doing that to the IIS files a few years back to remove the MS headers from the announcement strings MS specifically indicated that made IIS have no support.
My experience is if you deviate, you enter the land of best effort or not at all support. I have had several occasions where I have had leaks on Domain Controllers where I was told by PSS Alliance to even remove all third party software from the domain controller and see if the problem goes away let alone worry about hacked binaries. None of them recently as I haven't had an issue with it recently. Even bolder, I have had occasions where I was told something didn't work because the design wasn't per MS recommendations and the troubleshooting process stopped dead right there as well with a statement to redesign. This is especially prevalent in Exchange troubleshooting. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Custom Password Filter DLL I can't speak for the entire company, but I have debugged many custom passfilt and gina issues before. Have you had problems? If so please let m eknow, I'd be curious to hear what they were. You can ping me offline on that if you would like. I would point out that despite the fact that msgina.dll is upgraded during hotfix/sp install at times, your ginadll reg value probably would not. Therefore our upgrade of the gina would not be of great concern to you so long as you don't depend upon something that changes in the internals of our gina. I can't recall seeing a hotfix or sp that overwrites the reg value if you specify a custom gina, but if there was a time on that I'm sure someone will step in and point it out. I just don't recall seeing it. :) ~Eric ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Glenn Corbett Sent: Sat 12/4/2004 5:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Custom Password Filter DLL *shudder* Don't forget however that if you go down this path, make sure you A) Don't call Microsoft - they will laugh at you, charge your credit card, then hang up B) have a rollback plan to the standard GINA C) remember that the gina will most likely be replaced during a service pack (and sometimes) during hotfixes, so you may have to rehack and re-roll your changes again D) other vendors may replace / extend the gina (like smartcard / biometric addons) which may not like you hacking the GINA (or put their own one in which may negate your changes) Apart from that, have fun G. ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Blair, James Sent: Friday, 3 December 2004 12:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Custom Password Filter DLL http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/ ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Santhosh Sivarajan Sent: Fri 3/12/2004 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Custom Password Filter DLL Rhacker?? Where do I find that tool? Matt Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can use a program called Rhacker to modify the Gina, then rename it, change the reg key and reboot. All there is too it. We use it for our computer labs on campus to replace the Microsoft logos with our own and to add an appropriate use alert. Thanks, -- Matt Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Consultant for Student Technology Fee website: http://techfee.ewu.edu/ +--------------------------------------+ | 509.359.6972 ph. - 509.359.7087 fx | 307 MONROE HALL | Cheney, WA 99004 +--------------------------------------+ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Santhosh Sivarajan Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Custom Password Filter DLL Hi all, I am in a process of writing a custom password filter DLL. I modified the DLL and implemented it. Password filter is working according our requirements but my problem is, it is still displaying the default password complexity message (7 char, 24 history..etc etc). Is there anyway I can modify the display message without modifying the GINA? I found GINA source code on MSDN but it looks so complicated to me. Any suggestions or recommendations? Thanks in advance! Sen List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
