[389-users] Trouble using self signed certificates.

Jean-Noel Chardron Jean-Noel.Chardron at dr15.cnrs.fr
Wed Jun 24 17:06:07 UTC 2009


Jean-Noel Chardron a écrit :
> Dumbo Q a écrit :
>> I've managed to get past the the strangely obscure method of 
>> installing an SSL certificate, and from the server side everything 
>> appears to be OK. Actually its a "CACert" certificate, rather then 
>> self signed. Using Jxplorer, I can connect the the DS using SSL, 
>> accept the certificate, and I'm all set.
>>
>> However, I am having a ton of trouble figuring out how to use an 
>> untrusted ca for my linux user authentication. I changed 
>> /etc/ldap.conf to use ldaps://, and it attemtps to connect as 
>> expected. I think this would work, if I could figure out how to tell 
>> it to accept the certificate. I get the following error message in DS 
>> after running getent passwd.
>>
>> [24/Jun/2009:12:24:02 -0400] conn=3 op=-1 fd=66 closed - Peer does 
>> not recognize and trust the CA that issued your certificate.
>> [24/Jun/2009:12:24:02 -0400] conn=4 op=-1 fd=67 closed - Peer does 
>> not recognize and trust the CA that issued your certificate.
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
> I think you have to use the directive TLS_CACERT or TLS_CACERT_DIR in 
> /etc/ldap.conf
> man ldap.conf :
> TLS_CACERT <filename>
> Specifies the file that contains certificates for all of
> the Certificate Authorities the client will recognize.
>
> TLS_CACERTDIR <path>
> Specifies the path of a directory that contains Certifi‐
> cate Authority certificates in separate individual files.
> The TLS_CACERT is always used before TLS_CACERTDIR. This
> parameter is ignored with GNUtls.
>
or may be, to test the connection, you can skip the check of the 
certificate (as i discover in the man) with the option :
TLS_REQCERT  allow

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