[Freeipa-users] freeipa unsecured ports & MITM

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Simo Sorce wrote:
>On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 08:51 -0600, Master P. wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using FreeIPA on the cloud and am worried about MITM attacks.  I'm
>> assuming all network traffic can be easily read and possibly manipulated by
>> an attacker.
>>
>> When following
>> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/FreeIPA_Guide/installing-ipa.html,
>> some of the listed ports for FreeIPA (80 and 389) are unencrypted ports.
>
>The only thing port 80 does is redirect to 443.
There is also a CA certificate access on port 80 in case LDAP-based
access didn't work.

>Port 389 is the only use LDAP port and clients will use the STARTTLS
>command to transition to to a TLS encrypted connection or use GSSAPI and
>confidentiality to encrypt the traffic.
Also, any LDAP BIND with password will be refused without STARTTLS
command.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy