Rich Megginson wrote:
On 04/17/2012 06:15 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
Dmitri Pal wrote:
On 04/17/2012 05:21 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
If the cause of failure isn't as obvious with NSS, then again I
have
to say, it seems to me that you're looking in the wrong place for a
solution.
I value everybody's time too and understand that creating a good
abstraction is a cost especially if single solution worked in the
past.
So following the rules of the meritocracy it is completely
reasonable to
expect that whoever has the need does the work. And this is the case
here. But we want to do the work in the least intrusive way and to
address as many concerns as possible. So the question was and is "can
you please let us know how we should implement it to make things work
for everybody?".
OK. But at the moment I still don't understand why providing the debug
output (as we already do) isn't sufficient to allow administrators to
identify their misconfiguration issues.
We need some way for developers writing applications that use the
OpenLDAP API to get more detailed information from TLS/SSL connection
and other failures.
Jan's original proposal is for LDAP_TLS_INITIALIZATION_ERROR to allow
it to be distinguished from a session negotiation error. The bugzilla
bug quoted previously complains that TLS settings aren't checked at
startup time. Sounds to me like your actual problem is that you should
be forcing the context initialization to occur earlier, to catch these
cases. Unfortunately, ever since ITS#5696, you'll still be unable to
catch all possible NSS internal errors this way.
For your https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640393 I suggest you
add a call to ldap_set_option(ld, LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_NEWCTX,&flag) in
your app startup sequence to force libldap to perform context
initialization, and do your pathname/dbname/certname validation at
that time. That will give you an opportunity to detect
misconfiguration/initialization errors. Or at least, as much as is
possible since your real initialization is still deferred.
This may seem less precise compared to the original proposal, but it
has the virtue of failing early, rather than waiting until the first
session attempt to report a config error.