Re: Encrypted Passwords Restricting Logon Attempts

2002-11-30 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 01:58, Jim Morris wrote: Andrew (or anyone), As an alternative to modifying Samba, is there any way that the Samba logon could be aborted as late as the processing of the Windows logon scripts? If I could somehow force the user to log back out at that point (via

Re: Encrypted Passwords Restricting Logon Attempts

2002-11-28 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Jim Morris wrote: Now their corporate headquarters has identified this issue (unlimited login attempts allowed) as the primary violation on a recent security audit of the network in this branch office of the company. I

Re: Encrypted Passwords Restricting Logon Attempts

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 08:22, Jim Morris wrote: Hi All, I have been using Samba for a long time, as a network administrator and as a network consultant (since 1994). For the first time, I have had someone ask me how to setup Samba to deny access to a user after 3 unsuccessful logon

Re: Encrypted Passwords Restricting Logon Attempts

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Morris
Andrew, Thanks for your detailed response on this subject. As everyone on this list is probably aware, the use of encrypted passwords and PAM password authentication are an apparently mutually exclusive options with Samba 2.2.x. This is stated up front in the help for the 'obey pam

Re: Encrypted Passwords Restricting Logon Attempts

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Morris
Andrew (or anyone), As an alternative to modifying Samba, is there any way that the Samba logon could be aborted as late as the processing of the Windows logon scripts? If I could somehow force the user to log back out at that point (via the logon script), then that may be a temporary

Re: Encrypted Passwords Restricting Logon Attempts

2002-11-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 08:51:44AM -0600, Jim Morris wrote: It would also prevent domain logons, and exposes bugs in other parts of Microsoft's client. The domain in this case is controlled by Samba. Most of the clients are Windows 95/98 clients, and testing with Windows 98 seems to show

Re: Encrypted Passwords Restricting Logon Attempts

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Morris
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 09:12 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: With Win95/98 it might not be such an issue. If you have any member servers in your domain, it IS an issue, because the only way to get recent versions of Windows to negotiate plaintext auth is for the server to say it does

Re: Encrypted Passwords Restricting Logon Attempts

2002-11-27 Thread jra
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 03:22:48PM -0600, Jim Morris wrote: Alternatively, how difficult would it be to modify Samba to support an option like this directly, within the constructs of the smbpasswd file? What is your timeframe on this ? Do you need it to work on 2.2.x or later ? It certainly

Re: Encrypted Passwords Restricting Logon Attempts

2002-11-27 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Jim Morris wrote: Andrew (or anyone), As an alternative to modifying Samba, is there any way that the Samba logon could be aborted as late as the processing of the Windows logon scripts? If I could somehow force the user to log back out at that point (via the

Re: Encrypted Passwords Restricting Logon Attempts

2002-11-27 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 01:51, Jim Morris wrote: Andrew, Thanks for your detailed response on this subject. As everyone on this list is probably aware, the use of encrypted passwords and PAM password authentication are an apparently mutually exclusive options with Samba 2.2.x. This is

Encrypted Passwords Restricting Logon Attempts

2002-11-26 Thread Jim Morris
Hi All, I have been using Samba for a long time, as a network administrator and as a network consultant (since 1994). For the first time, I have had someone ask me how to setup Samba to deny access to a user after 3 unsuccessful logon attempts. This is part of a new corporate security policy at