Does slapd support TLS thorugh SASL EXTERNAL mechanism

["Vaideeswaran, Ganesh" <ganesh.vaideeswaran@documentum.com>]

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Hi,

 

How does slapd support TLS? Does it use TLS library directly, or does it go through

SASL using the "EXTERNAL" mechanism.

 

I looked at LDAP library, and see that there is a way to tie in TLS with SASL using EXTERNAL

mechanism. But I do not see this being used anywhere in slapd. Is this being used only in slurpd?

If so, why not??

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Ganesh