Bug#277767: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#277767: Progress on this bug report?

Greg Matthews gmatt at nerc.ac.uk
Tue Mar 28 14:20:31 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 23:30 +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> Today I have finally managed to make openldap (slapd)
> work with TLS/SSL. Initially I tried DSA certs, and
> this always resulted in SSL handshake failure (no
> shared cipher), despite all my efforts, including
> different clients (pam_ldap, ldapsearch, openssl
> s_client) and attempt to trace root cause of the issue
> (I used slapd -d 65535, s_client's debug, tcpdump,
> then ssldump...).

never had too much problem setting up either start_TLS or ldaps security
altho I've always used RSA I think. Theres a fair amount of info at the
faq-o-matic over at openldap.org (some ppl cant stand faq-o-matic tho),
and plenty of old war stories on the web - might be worth looking at the
itss site over at stanford. otherwise, give me a yell and I'll help if I
can.

> Ultimately, with the same cert/key pair, s_server
> succeeded with s_client (where slapd didn't). Well, for
> this I used ldaps:///, because ldap:///+TLS can't work
> with s_client AFAIU. But anyway this clearly shows
> there's something wrong with slapd, as s_server works
> OK under the same conditions...

might be worth asking on the openldap mailing list and/or submitting a
bug report.

> Then I created RSA cert of almost the same contents
> (RSA had email while DSA hadn't) and bitlength. This
> surprisingly enabled s_client to succeed.
> 
> I suspect bug in slapd's handling of SSL_CTX or
> DH params... I'd love to have more time to check and
> report it. :(
> 
> > > It looks like bug is in libnss-ldap, or libpam-ldap,
> > > not in su, but this has to be proven first.
> 
> Soon I'll be close to this.

getting there... ;)

G
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