Mysteries of openldap

[Anthony Messina]

On Friday 30 November 2007 03:59:15 pm Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> >> I'm running openldap on my desktop,
> >> and can access it fine from my laptop.
> >> But I'd like to use TLS encryption
> >> (as the desktop ldap is open to the world).
> >>
> >> Unfortunately I find the openldap documentation
> >> very difficult to follow.
>
> ...
>
> > short answer, use ldaps - even though it is deprecated.
>
> Well, thanks very much for your response.
> I'll try ldaps, as you suggest.
> I couldn't tell, from the documentation,
> what the difference is between ldap + TLS and ldaps,
> except that they seem to use different ports.

ldaps is ldap over ssl, port 636: this would be similar to using https:// 
instead of http://

ldap + tls is ldap using the start_tls mechanism, port 389

> > self signed certs?  add TLS_REQCERT to /etc/openldap/ldap.conf
> > and /etc/ldap.conf (openldap client apps use the one in /etc/openldap
> > folder, everything else uses the one is /etc directory)
>
> I hadn't realized there was a second ldap.conf .
> That's just about par for the course ...
>
> > this is old, obsolete but very useful
> >
> > http://www.openldap.org/pub/ksoper/OpenLDAP_TLS.html
>
> Thanks, I had seen that but ignored it after the rather prissy warning,
> "This independently authored paper is considered to have obsolete status".
> But with your recommendation I'll study it closely.
>
> Reading openldap documentation is like driving through fog.
> At least one has some sense of progress,
> which is more than I can say for reading sendmail docs.



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