[Fedora-directory-users] TLS authentication

[Richard Megginson]

Pete Rowley wrote:
> Adams Samuel D Contr AFRL/HEDR wrote:
>
>> Anyway, should I worry about clients using the LDAP to authenticate
>> without TLS?
>>
> That really depends on your deployment - how sensitive would you be to 
> someone having their credentials sniffed off the wire? How likely is 
> it that someone will attempt a non-encrypted bind? YMMV.
>
>>  Do I need to set my directory server such that users can
>> only authenticate only if they have TLS enabled?   
>>
> By the time the bind code is evaluating whether a secure transport was 
> used the credentials have already passed over the wire. If you are 
> sensitive to this, then I would suggest you disable the non-secure 
> port by setting its port # to zero, then the only way to attempt a 
> bind is over the secure port using SSL.
Since LDAP suggests to use startTLS to start up TLS sessions on the 
non-secure port, there should be a way to disallow operations before the 
startTLS happens.  Fedora DS does not support this.
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