Re: ssf=0 for localhost

Nathan Huesken writes:

I have setup ldap with tls. To disallow users to authenticate without security form differenct computers, I added

security ssf=64

to slapd.conf. Now I want local users (connections from localhost) to allow authenticating without any tls or SASL. I added:

localSSF 0

Read the localSSF description in the slapd.conf manpage.

localSSF applies to ldapi:// connections, not ldap://localhost/ connections. And what you just did was assign ldapi:// users a security strength 0, which disallows them, rather than the default 71, which allows them on your setup (since it is above 64).

Do not use ldapi:// with clients or servers before OpenLDAP 2.3.35, it had security issues.