Re: LDAP-Client and certificates

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Dieter Kluenter wrote:

> "Nicolas Drosson" <nicolas.drosson@students.jku.at> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Hi, 
> >
> >  Ich have a problem with the configuration of my openLDAP client. I got a
> > .der certificate from the admin of the LDAP server I want to connect to. I
> > need to connect over SSL because of security. I think it is normal. I need
> > to know how I should configure my LDAP client to work with this certificate.
> > I read in the documentation about ldap.conf that the command TLS_CACERT only
> > with .PEM certificates works. Is there any way to use the .DER certificate?
> >    
>
> No, not I know of.
>
> -Dieter
>
>  
Use the openssl x509 utility to read the .DER file and save it in PEM 
format. See the OpenSSL documentation for details.

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