Re: SSL/TLS connection on port 389

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Monday, January 28, 2008 2:57 PM +0000 Chris Carr 
<chris.carr@Camden.gov.uk> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've been running slapd with "-h ldaps:///" so that it takes SSL/TLS
> connections on port 636. This has worked with most clients (Outlook,
> Seamonkey, Thunderbird) but does not work for Evolution. I don't know
> why not, but Evolution seems to insist on using port 389 for secure
> connections.
>
> When I type
>
> openssl s_client -connect my.server.com:389

If you read the documentation on openssl, it clearly states it doesn't 
support doing LDAP startTLS over port 389.

I suggest using ldapsearch -ZZ -H ldap://my.server.com:389/

or similar.

--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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