Mysteries of openldap
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Fri Nov 30 22:09:34 UTC 2007
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
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