Re: what's the differnce?

[Christian Schäfer <caefer@krachstoff.net>]

Christopher Schadl wrote:

> Port 636 is used for LDAP over SSL.  In order for that to work, you will
> need to have generated an SSL certificate for the LDAP server to use,
> and the SSL certificate will have to have the fully qualified domain
> name of the LDAP server set as it's Common Name attribute.  If you're
> just communicating with the LDAP server in question via localhost, then
> you shouldn't need SSL, (you can just set the -p option to use the
> default LDAP port of 389) however, if you're communicating over a
> network then you should definatley read 
> http://www.openldap.org/pub/ksoper/OpenLDAP_TLS_howto.html for more
> information on setting up SSL/TLS.
>  
yes, sorry.. I should have mentioned that. my ldap _is_ listening on 636 
over ssl already.

netstat -tnpl  shows slapd listening on 0.0.0.0:636. all certificates 
are available. that's not the problem. :-)


but I will check out if the order of options will change things.


regards
/christian