Re: CA cert and ldaprc handling issues in OpenLDAP

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

At 03:58 PM 2002-05-13, kervin@blueprint-tech.com wrote:
>(i) How does a programmer control wether the OpenLDAP library searches for
>the ldaprc ( ldap.conf ) file?
>I believe that in some conditions, that doing so might be a security risk.

By setting LDAPNOINIT in the environment.

>(ii)  Is there a way to specify which ldaprc file to use at runtime?

yes, though environment variables.

>(iii)  How can a program at runtime specify a CA cert file to trust? ie.,
>specify the TLS_CACERT option at runtime?

You can set TLS options using ldap_set_option().

Kurt