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Re: Openldap server with TLS not working



btb wrote:
> On 2013.10.02 07.29, Axel Grosse wrote:
> 
>> when I test on the server itself ..
>> openssl s_client -connect 192.168.30.169:389 -showcerts -CAfile
>> ./ssl/VordelCA.crt
>> CONNECTED(00000003)
>> 710:error:140790E5:SSL routines:SSL23_WRITE:ssl handshake
>> failure:s23_lib.c:188:
> 
> ldaps [port 636] is deprecated.
>  use starttls with the standard port [389]. 
> to test, just use ldapsearch [see the reference to -Z in the man page]

This is nonsense.

From a security perspective there's no reason not to use LDAPS. Well, I'd even
recommend LDAPS since SSL/TLS handshake is done *before* a client can send an
LDAP PDU.
With my deployments I always enable both but prefer LDAPS.

I cannot imagine that any LDAP server or client will ever drop support for
LDAPS since this would immediately rule out this implementation from broader
market share.

Ciao, Michael.

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