Re: kmail/kaddressbook + openldap, again, sorry

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On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 14:35 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have kaddressbook working fine with my openldap directory,
> but when I try to enable TLS security it fails.
> 
> More precisely, when I go to Settings=>Configure KAddressBook
> =>LDAP Lookup, choose my host www.xyz.com (say),
> click on Security: TLS and press Query Server
> I get the message "LDAP server returned the error: Not Supported".
> 
> On the other hand, I seem able to run
> -------------------------------------------
> [tim@elizabeth ~]$ ldapsearch -x -ZZ
> ...
> # www.xyz.com
> dn: dc=www,dc=xyz,dc=com
> dc: www
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: domain
> ...
> # Address Book, www.xyz.com
> dn: ou=Address Book,dc=www,dc=xyz,dc=com
> objectClass: organizationalUnit
> ou: Address Book
> ...
> # search result
> search: 3
> result: 0 Success
> 
> # numResponses: 216
> # numEntries: 215
> -------------------------------------------
> which suggests to me (but I may be wrong?)
> that TLS is working OK with ldap.
> 
> Also, I seem able to connect:
> -------------------------------------------
> [tim@elizabeth ~]$ openssl s_client -connect www.xyz.com:ldap
> CONNECTED(00000003)
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> The simplest explanation would be that kaddressbook was compiled
> without openldap/TLS enabled, if that is possible?
> 
> Or maybe I am already using TLS?
> I have
> -------------------------------------------
> TLS_REQCERT demand
> TLS_CACERT /etc/pki/tls/certs/cacert.pem
> -------------------------------------------
> in /etc/openldap/ldap.conf on my laptop,
> which I would have thought would force TLS usage.
> (cacert.pem is the root certificate I got from CAcert.org ,
> who certified my key.)
> 
> As will probably be clear, I am not quite a newbie on openssl and openldap,
> but neither am I an expert.
> 
> Incidentally, I do now have the recommended book on LDAP administration
> by Gerald Carter, which I am finding very instructive,
> but which has not elucidated this particular point.
----
kaddressbook is capable of a TLS session. You might try TLS_REQCERT
allow but I doubt that is your issue.

I think that you need to choose 'plain' (possibly login but I think
plain), to use TLS on Kaddressbook.

You can always increase your logging level on slapd to tell you where it
fails

Craig

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