Re: Help with openldap and starttls

Quanah Gibson-Mount <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:58:12 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.openldap.general
Message-ID <508D9AD4A8AB647A1B10A34E@[192.168.1.2]>
--On Thursday, April 15, 2010 3:55 PM -0700 john espiro 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Ok - this is actually very helpful...
>
> So I think I have just one set of remaining questions:
>
> 1) In /etc/openldap/ldap.conf, I currently have:
> URI     ldapi://127.0.0.1/

This says the clients should default to using the ldapi:/// socket. 
Compare that to the options you are providing to slapd, to see if you think 
this will work.

> 2) what command line parameters do I want to run openldap with?
> Currently mine is running with:
>  /usr/sbin/slapd -u ldap -h ldap://127.0.0.1:389 ldaps://127.0.0.1:636
>
> It seems I should at least be removing the *:636 part since it will be
> using STARTTLS, correct?

It's up to you.  Some old pieces of software don't support startTLS.  Some 
poorly written modern pieces of software don't support it either.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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