Dear All,
Should we merge the TLS cert generation seciton of the FAQ into TLS.sdf?
Could you all think of some simple questions to ask when troubleshooting an OpenLDAP "problem" as our users call it ;-)
See the the "Checklist" in the Troubleshooting section I've started.
Gavin.
----- "Gavin Henry" ghenry@suretecsystems.com wrote:
Dear All,
Should we merge the TLS cert generation seciton of the FAQ into TLS.sdf?
Sounds good to me.
Could you all think of some simple questions to ask when troubleshooting an OpenLDAP "problem" as our users call it ;-)
See the the "Checklist" in the Troubleshooting section I've started.
(a) use the slaptest tool to verify configurations before starting slapd
(b) Verify that slapd is listening to the specified port(s) (389 and 636, generally) before trying the ldapsearch
(c) Under the debugging slapd section, I'd note the following: (i) Loglevel 256 is generally a good first loglevel to try for getting information useful to list members on issues (ii) Running slapd -d -1 can often track down fairly simple issues, such as missing schema and incorrect file permissions for the slapd user to things like certs
--Quanah
Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
----- "Gavin Henry" ghenry@suretecsystems.com wrote:
Dear All,
Should we merge the TLS cert generation seciton of the FAQ into TLS.sdf?
Sounds good to me.
That really falls outside the purpose of the OpenLDAP Admin Guide, i.e., a guide to administering *OpenLDAP* software. We can reference the FAQ article, or a separately packaged HOWTO document, but IMO it does not belong in the Guide itself. Just as we talk about how Kerberos or SASL may be used, but don't discuss how to initialize and populate a KDC or SASL authentication DB.
At some point we'll have our own certificate-generating overlay, in which case it will be an actual piece of OpenLDAP software, and then it will be a legitimate topic for the Guide. I.e., I do feel that the lack of integral X.509 support is something we need to address, and that the overall topic properly belongs under the OpenLDAP umbrella since it is a core element of the X.500 spec. We just aren't there yet.
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Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
----- "Gavin Henry" ghenry@suretecsystems.com wrote:
Dear All,
Should we merge the TLS cert generation seciton of the FAQ into TLS.sdf?
Sounds good to me.
That really falls outside the purpose of the OpenLDAP Admin Guide, i.e., a guide to administering *OpenLDAP* software. We can reference the FAQ article, or a separately packaged HOWTO document, but IMO it does not belong in the Guide itself. Just as we talk about how Kerberos or SASL may be used, but don't discuss how to initialize and populate a KDC or SASL authentication DB.
This is why I asked, as I had a feeling it shouldn't, but it comes up so many times. A link to the FAQ entry will be fine.
At some point we'll have our own certificate-generating overlay, in which case it will be an actual piece of OpenLDAP software, and then it will be a legitimate topic for the Guide. I.e., I do feel that the lack of integral X.509 support is something we need to address, and that the overall topic properly belongs under the OpenLDAP umbrella since it is a core element of the X.500 spec. We just aren't there yet.
Would be very cool.
-- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
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