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Re: Getting SSL/TSL to work



* Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> [0353 22:53]:
> Dick Davies writes:
> >* Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> [0349 18:49]:
> >> Well, you can turn off client-side server certificate validation, but...
> >
> > Incidentally, is there a way to disable server certificate checking in
> > the OpenLDAP client libraries?
> 
> See 'TLS_REQCERT <level>' in 'man ldap.conf',
> or ldap_set_option(ld, LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_REQUIRE_CERT,
>    &(int with value LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_<NEVER, ALLOW or TRY>)).
> 
> > We have some misconfigured ldap servers at work and had to resort to
> > hacking the tls code from 2.1 into 2.2....
> 
> The above options existed - undocumented - even in OpenLDAP 2.0.0.
> Hm.  LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_REQUIRE_CERT is still undocumented.

Yeah, a ldap_set_option(3) manpage is long overdue. I usually resort to 
trawling through ldap.h for likely looking suspects :)

Thanks for the tip, that should work great for most of my needs.

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