How to restrict the anonymous connections to a samba server from enumerating the domain users information ?

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Issue

  • Anonymous rpcclient connections to RHEL samba servers are able to enumerate the domain users using enumdomusers.

  • After connecting to the samba server as anonymous user :

    root@rhel:~# rpcclient -U "" xx.xx.xx.xx
Enter 's password:

  • Users are able to list the domain users information with the command enumdomusers as below :

    rpcclient $> enumdomusers
user:[nobody] rid:[0x1f5]
user:[gh0s7] rid:[0x3e8]

  • How to restrict the anonymous users to be able to list this information ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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