[Dovecot] authenticating with LDAP and SSL
Stian Jordet
liste+dovecot at jordet.net
Mon Mar 19 00:02:59 EET 2007
søn, 18.03.2007 kl. 13.26 -0700, skrev Nathan Fiedler:
> I managed to configure Dovecot to use a local OpenLDAP server to
> authenticate clients, without using SSL. However, I would rather that
> LDAP is accessed using SSL, but I cannot get Dovecot to connect. All
> that I did was change "uris" to "ldaps://localhost", and this appears in
> the maillog:
>
> Mar 18 12:53:00 server dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up
> Mar 18 12:53:01 server dovecot: auth(default): ldap_bind((null)) failed:
> Can't contact LDAP server
>
> Is there additional configuration that is needed for SSL?
>
> Note that I altered the slapd.conf file from not requiring SSL to
> requiring SSL when I changed the "uris" parameter. And, of course,
> accessing the directory using ldapsearch works just fine. It seems that
> there's only a problem when using SSL, but I don't know how to debug it.
I have been using ldaps with dovecot since 0.99.x, and now with rc27
without problems. But I have never used auth_bind (yet, it's on my
todo).
-Stian
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