I'm trying to do set up authentication between fedora 14 client and server using ldap passwords. I seem to be having a problem getting the server to accept startTLS. It has all been set up with 389-console and system-config-authentication.<br>
<br>In more detail, I set up the client using system-config-authentication, to use LDAP for the user account authentication, TLS to encrypt connections, and LDAP passwords. I set the LDAP server to ldap://<server name>. All this seems to be working OK, on the server (wireshark) I can see the initial ldap handshake on port 389, as expected. The problem seems to start at the next stage. I see a tcp packet to port 389 from the client, protocol LDAP, Info extendedReq(1) LDAP_START_TLS_OID, which I assume is the request packet from the client to start the TLS handshake. I see a TCP ack from the server, but this is immediately followed by a protocol LDAP message from the server to the client, extendedResp(1) (unsupported extended operation). I assume this is a failure message. However the client replies with an SSLv2 Client Hello. There is never an SSL response, <br>
<br>On the client, I see in the logs <br>ssd[be[LDAP]]: Could not start TLS encryption. unsupported extended operation<br>which I assume confirms that the attempt to start up TLS failed. <br><br>In the server dirsrv access log, I see:<br>
<br>[08/Apr/2011:16:40:46 +0900] conn=12 fd=64 slot=64 connection from 192.168.1.7 to 192.168.1.192<br>[08/Apr/2011:16:40:46 +0900] conn=12 op=0 EXT oid="1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037"<br>[08/Apr/2011:16:40:46 +0900] conn=12 op=0 RESULT err=2 tag=120 nentries=0 etime=0<br>
[08/Apr/2011:16:40:46 +0900] conn=12 op=-1 fd=64 closed error 71 (Protocol error) - B1<br><br>and in the error log (logging verbosity turned up a bit) I see<br><br>[08/Apr/2011:17:13:22 +0900] - new connection on 64<br>[08/Apr/2011:17:13:22 +0900] - activity on 64r<br>
[08/Apr/2011:17:13:22 +0900] - read activity on 64<br>[08/Apr/2011:17:13:22 +0900] - conn 16 activity level = 0<br>[08/Apr/2011:17:13:22 +0900] - listener got signaled<br>[08/Apr/2011:17:13:22 +0900] - flush_ber() wrote 44 bytes to socket 64<br>
[08/Apr/2011:17:13:22 +0900] - activity on 64r<br>[08/Apr/2011:17:13:22 +0900] - read activity on 64<br>[08/Apr/2011:17:13:22 +0900] - conn=16 received a non-LDAP message (tag 0x80, expected 0x30)<br>[08/Apr/2011:17:13:22 +0900] - conn 16 leaving turbo mode due to 3<br>
[08/Apr/2011:17:13:22 +0900] - listener got signaled<br><br><br>All this seems to suggest that either I don't have startTLS built into my installation of 389, or I'm somehow failing to enable it. However I can't see any plugin in yum that would help, and the only place I can see (at least in 389-console) that looks like it could affect this is the Domain name "Secure connection" checkbox. However I've tried toggling this and I see exactly the same behaviour either way (I'm guessing that the checkbox actually enables SSL support on port 636, but the documentation isn't too clear on this). <br>
<br>One possibility, that I'm not too sure how to check, is that the (self-signed) CA certificate or the server certificate might be bad. However they look fine on dumping, and both appear to be installed in the server. And hopefully, I would have got rather more informative log messages in this case. I'm not too sure how to test this locally on the server, any pointers on how to do this would be great.<br>
<br>Any help anyone can give on this would be _hugely_ appreciated - I am now three days in on what looked like it was supposed to be a straightforward install, with no real progress, and getting further behind on other urgent stuff. Urrgggg.<br>
<br>System:<br>Client and server:<br>F14, 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 kernel<br><br>Server:<br>slapd 2.4.23<br><br>Client:<br>sssd 64-bit 1.5.4-1.fc14<br><br><br> Best Wishes<br> Bob<br>