Re: cannot connect using TLS to localhost

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 09:28 AM 6/7/2001, Michael L Torrie wrote:
>My problem is that on the machine that ldap is running on, I cannot
>connect using TLS.  gq just spits out and error about not being able to
>make a TLS connection.  The weird thing is that from any other machine, I
>can get a tls connection just fine.  I'm running a couple of things that
>need to be able to bind to LDAP using TLS on the local machine.  I can
>bind just fine on the local machine if I don't use TLS.  I also suppose
>that since I'm just connecting via localhost, it doesn't matter if I use
>TLS or not.  But I'm curious as to why a TLS localhost connection is
>failing.  both gq and pam_ldap fail.  My gut feeling is that there's
>something about the certificate, but I don't know.

Likely the certificate was not issued for "localhost".
See RFC 2829.

Kurt