Re: ldap+ssl+Active directory

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

At 10:47 AM 7/5/2004, Andreas wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 10:34:32AM -0700, Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
>> At 01:09 AM 7/5/2004, Ainhoa Prat wrote:
>> >I'm having problems using ldap with ssl against windows 2000 AD. I have Suse 9 as ldap client and w2k as ldap server. I set use ssl in ldap.conf,
>> 
>> Not sure what you mean by "set use ssl in ldap.conf"... but if you
>> mean you set 'use ssl' in ldap.conf, I note that OpenLDAP ldap.conf(5)
>> has no 'use ssl' directive.  You might be confusing directives for
>> some other ldap.conf file with OpenLDAP's ldap.conf(5).
>
>SuSE mixes nss_ldap and pam_ldap's ldap.conf (from PADL software) with 
>openldap's ldap.conf.

If so, that's ill-advised.

Regardless, "use ssl" is not, as I said above, an OpenLDAP
ldap.conf(5) directive and hence will be ignored by OpenLDAP
command lines tools such as ldapsearch(1).

Kurt