RE: Start TLS extended request

[Siva Kollipara <siva@CS.Arizona.EDU>]

TLS_CACERTDIR is working fine.

Its just that if TLS_CACERTFILE is null or
absent then my client (using openldap libraries) terminates saying "unable
to load client CA list". --> this part is confuses me as to why should it
terminate ?

Siva


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Howard Chu wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> > [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Siva Kollipara
>
> > Hi,
> >  thanks for your earlier response. I'd had a question earlier
> > regarding the use of TLS_CACERTDIR and TLS_CACERTFILE.
> >
> > Is it that if I have to use ssl/tls with mandatory server
> > authentication
> > TLS_CACERTFILE **MUST** be set (either thro program or ldap.conf or
> > .ldaprc) and TLS_CACERTDIR can **optionally** be set to a directory.
> >
> >    TLS_CACERTFILE	TLS_CACERTDIR
> > 1    null		null	 	   fails - valid reason to fail
> > 2    null		valid directory    fails - why?
> > 3.a  correct CA file	null		   works - ok
> > 3.b  incorrect CA file	null		   fails -
> > valid reason to fail
> > 4.a  correct CA file	valid directory	   works - ok
> > 4.b  incorrect CA file	valid directory    works - the
> > directory has the correct CA file
> >
> > I've tried these combinations and only situations where
> > TLS_CACERTFILE is
> > set to a CA certficate (even some CA not included in the test picture
> > at all) works. for situation (2) my certificate verify fails with the
> > following error:
>
> Try reading the documentation again. TLS_CACERTDIR requires more than just a
> directory containing CA certificate files. In general it's more bother than
> it's worth.
>
>   -- Howard Chu
>   Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
>   http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
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>