[Dovecot] ntlm auth / usernames with white spaces
Matthias Lay
matthias.lay at securepoint.de
Fri Jul 27 17:32:59 EEST 2012
Hi,
we experienced some problems with white spaces in usernames (this was
NOT our idea) authenticated bei dovecots ntlmhelper
I wrote a little patch fixing this, if you would like.
patch applies on 2.1.7 and 2.1.8 (tested those)
diff -up ./src/auth/mech-winbind.c.username ./src/auth/mech-winbind.c
--- ./src/auth/mech-winbind.c.username 2012-07-27 09:52:33.422553807
+0200
+++ ./src/auth/mech-winbind.c 2012-07-27 14:23:03.718619388 +0200
@@ -239,8 +239,16 @@ do_auth_continue(struct auth_request *au
return HR_FAIL;
} else if (strcmp(token[0], "AF") == 0) {
const char *user, *p, *error;
+ int ti=1;
+
+ if(gss_spnego)
+ ti=2;
+ /* some braindead administrators like spaces in usernames */
+ user = token[ti];
+ while(token[++ti]){
+ user = t_strconcat(user, " ", token[ti], NULL);
+ }
- user = gss_spnego ? token[2] : token[1];
i_assert(user != NULL);
p = strchr(user, '\\');
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