On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 21:59 +0000, 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. > > > 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. ---- should have been TLS_REQCERT allow for self-signed certs important to realize... # rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/ldap.conf nss_ldap-257-3.fc6 # rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/openldap/ldap.conf openldap-2.3.30-3.fc6 made me crazy not knowing why the 2 files... # rpm -ql openldap-clients|grep man /usr/share/man/man1/ldapadd.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ldapcompare.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ldapdelete.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ldapmodify.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ldapmodrdn.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ldappasswd.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ldapsearch.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/ldapwhoami.1.gz there used to be 2 different man pages on ldap.conf but nss_ldap (padl) has renamed theirs... # rpm -ql openldap|grep man /usr/share/man/man5/ldap.conf.5.gz /usr/share/man/man5/ldif.5.gz # rpm -ql nss_ldap|grep man /usr/share/man/man5/nss_ldap.5.gz /usr/share/man/man5/pam_ldap.5.gz /etc/openldap/ldap.conf is for openldap and openldap-clients software Craig
