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-rw-r--r--source4/auth/session.h14
-rw-r--r--source4/auth/system_session.c7
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/source4/auth/session.h b/source4/auth/session.h
index 9b5fba7f39..933b14a1b4 100644
--- a/source4/auth/session.h
+++ b/source4/auth/session.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/*
Unix SMB/CIFS implementation.
- Auth session handling
+ Process and provide the logged on user's authorization token
Copyright (C) Andrew Bartlett 2001
Copyright (C) Stefan Metzmacher 2005
@@ -30,8 +30,18 @@ struct auth_session_info {
#include "librpc/gen_ndr/netlogon.h"
-struct auth_session_info *system_session_anon(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, struct loadparm_context *lp_ctx);
+/* Create a security token for a session SYSTEM (the most
+ * trusted/prvilaged account), including the local machine account as
+ * the off-host credentials */
struct auth_session_info *system_session(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, struct loadparm_context *lp_ctx) ;
+
+/*
+ * Create a system session, but with anonymous credentials (so we do
+ * not need to open secrets.ldb)
+ */
+struct auth_session_info *system_session_anon(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, struct loadparm_context *lp_ctx);
+
+
NTSTATUS auth_anonymous_server_info(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx,
const char *netbios_name,
struct auth_serversupplied_info **_server_info) ;
diff --git a/source4/auth/system_session.c b/source4/auth/system_session.c
index e99bbbb1ab..1d227fe468 100644
--- a/source4/auth/system_session.c
+++ b/source4/auth/system_session.c
@@ -147,9 +147,10 @@ static NTSTATUS generate_session_info(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx,
-/**
- Create a system session, with machine account credentials
-*/
+/* Create a security token for a session SYSTEM (the most
+ * trusted/prvilaged account), including the local machine account as
+ * the off-host credentials
+ */
_PUBLIC_ struct auth_session_info *system_session(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, struct loadparm_context *lp_ctx)
{
NTSTATUS nt_status;