I appreciate everyone's advice, I have verified that as the same uid "user
ldap", i CAN connect to the external LDAP server via "ldapwhoami over
ldaps://" but when connecting to localhost and attempting to use the "meta"
definition, it doesn't work.
I don't have a copy of the cacert on the external server, i just have a self
signed setup on my own openldap box. Do I need to get a copy of their
cacert.pem and configure that in my ldap.conf?
I haven't had a chance to look at the strace/truss output yet, but will post
when I do.
--stephen