Thanks Dieter...
As I stated I saw Howard Chu's response to an individual in 2005 with a similar issue and he stated then, " For the slapd server you use the corresponding TLSCACertificateFile directive. You must use these configuration directives if you want to accept a self-signed cert."
I did add the olcTLSCACertificateFile attribute (just forgot to list it in my original post). Was not certain at the time if the "olcTLSCertificateFile" should be removed so I did not remove it. So, before I do remove it, the attribute should be "olcTLSCACertificateFile" instead of "olcTLSCertificateFile" (and this should be removed), correct?
The CA directories on all three servers look like this:
# ll total 28 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 24 11:44 600f07a1.0 -> cacert.pem --> client hash -rw-r--r-- 1 ldap ldap 5136 Jan 17 12:15 cacert.pem --> Self-signed certificate -rw-r--r-- 1 ldap ldap 1090 Jan 17 12:07 cert.csr --> Certificate Signing Request -rw-r--r-- 1 ldap ldap 1757 Jan 17 12:23 client.pem --> Client Certificate PEM -rw-r--r-- 1 ldap ldap 0 Jan 14 16:20 index.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 ldap ldap 4096 Jan 14 16:18 newcerts (empty) drwxr-xr-x 2 ldap ldap 4096 Jan 17 12:06 private --> server private key directory (cakey.pem) -rw-r--r-- 1 ldap ldap 3 Jan 17 11:59 serial
This may sound like a dumb question...
I created the client.pem from the cacert.pem (as indicated on openssl.org) then copied that to each client. Is there a step I missed in there?
If so, where?
Thanks in advance
John -----Original Message----- From: openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org [mailto:openldap-technical-bounces@OpenLDAP.org] On Behalf Of Dieter Klünter Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 12:58 PM To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: Re: TLS QUESTION
Am Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:18:14 -0400 schrieb "Borresen, John - 0442 - MITLL" John.Borresen@ll.mit.edu:
All,
My set up consists of three servers each syncing with each other. The host names are:
mm-server1.example.ldapmm-server2.example.ldapmm-server3.example.ldapUtilizing TLSv1, on all three I have:
olcTLSCertificateFile: /usr/local/openldap/etc/openldap/CA/cacert.pem
this should be opcTLSCAcertificateFile
olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: /usr/local/openldap/etc/openldap/CA/private/cakey.pem
you are misssing the host certificate, something like olcTLSCertificateFile /usr/local/openldap/etc/openldap/CA/host.pem
olcTLSCipherSuite: HIGH:MEDIUM+TLSv1+SSLv3
Configured with self-signed wild-card certs, originally configured (using openssl 0.9.8) on mm-server2 and exported to the other servers.
When running ldapmodify, ldapsearch, etc with a "-Z", and openssl s_client on mm-server1 or mm-server3 or any client pointing back to mm-server1 or 3, I receive the following error:
TLS certificate verification: Error, self signed certificate
TLS: can't connect: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed (self signed certificate).
ldap_start_tls: Connect error (-11)
additional info: error:14090086:SSLroutines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed (self signed certificate)
Running any of those to mm-server2, it works with no such error.
I am guessing, that since the certs were created on mm-server2, originally, that is why it works this way. Also, guessing I missed a step somewhere.
I read online a post from 2005 with a good explanation of self-signed from Howard Chu about a similar problem.
What is the best procedure for creating wild-card certs and sharing those out to other servers? The procedure that was used was from openssl.org so it was not a fly-by-night weblog.
What did I miss (besides: a lot)?
Thanks in advance,
John D. Borresen (Dave)
Linux/Unix Systems Administrator
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Surveillance Systems Group
244 Wood St
Lexington, MA 02420
Ph: (781) 981-1609
Email: john.borresen@ll.mit.edu
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