Cheap advice inline.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:44:25AM -0400, John Tobin wrote:
Folks,
I have openldap up, it supports vsftpd, sshd, and 5 client linux machines for remote login.
I would like to get tls working. I would support either ldaps [port 636], or the tls available on port 389, I am aware of the differences in implementation, and the fact that an administrator effectively has to make a decision to support one or the other in most cases.
Currently: I have slapd running configured for tls under ldap [std port 389]. I am testing it on the slapd machine, with a client on the same machine. I am pointing to the same cacertificate in slapd.d [cn=config.ldif] and ldap.conf.
With that in place, and the ldap.conf below: nightmare:/etc # cat ldap.conf
base dc=dark,dc=net uri ldap://nightmare.dark.net # scope sub # binddn "cn=admin,dc=dark,dc=net" # bindpw jackie bind_policy soft # The user ID attribute (defaults to uid) pam_login_attribute uid pam_lookup_policy yes pam_password exop nss_schema rfc2307bis tls_reqcert never pam_filter objectClass=posixAccount ldap_version 3 nss_map_attribute uniqueMember uniqueMember ssl start_tls tls_cacert /var/lib/ldap/cacert.pem tls_cert /var/lib/server.crt tls_key /var/lib/ldap/server.key
I have run ldapsearch: nightmare:/media # ldapsearch -v -x -H ldap://nightmare.dark.net:389/ -b "dc=dark,dc=net" -Z
Always test starttls with -ZZ, so if your starttls isn't working the connection will fail.
ldap_initialize( ldap://nightmare.dark.net:389/??base ) filter: (objectclass=*) requesting: All userApplication attributes # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base <dc=dark,dc=net> with scope subtree # filter: (objectclass=*) # requesting: ALL #
# dark.net dn: dc=dark,dc=net dc: dark o: dark objectClass: organization objectClass: dcObject
# admin, dark.net dn: cn=admin,dc=dark,dc=net objectClass: organizationalRole cn: admin
# Default Policy, dark.net dn: cn=Default Policy,dc=dark,dc=net objectClass: namedObject objectClass: pwdPolicy cn: Default Policy
# People, dark.net dn: ou=People,dc=dark,dc=net objectClass: organizationalUnit ou: People description: People is used in mapping the /etc/passwd entries
# jtobin, People, dark.net dn: uid=jtobin,ou=People,dc=dark,dc=net uid: jtobin cn: John C. Tobin objectClass: account objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: top objectClass: shadowAccount loginShell: /bin/ksh uidNumber: 5000 gidNumber: 100 homeDirectory: /home/jtobin gecos: John C. Tobin
# defaultDNS, dark.net dn: cn=defaultDNS,dc=dark,dc=net cn: defaultDNS objectClass: top objectClass: suseDnsConfiguration suseDefaultBase: ou=DNS,dc=dark,dc=net
# DNS, dark.net dn: ou=DNS,dc=dark,dc=net objectClass: top objectClass: organizationalUnit ou: DNS
# search result search: 3 result: 0 Success
# numResponses: 8 # numEntries: 7
nightmare:~ # #####
So I am assuming the ldapserver on ldap://nightmare.dark.net:389/ with tls works. [I looked through the message output in /var/log/message and see the “STARTTLS” and “TLS established tls_ssf=256”] I have done a number of similar ldapsearches. This appears to work correctly.
On the client machine I now do :
nightmare:/media # su - jtobin su: user jtobin does not exist nightmare:/media #
/var/log/message - output......
nightmare:/var/log # tail –f |grep –I tls
Oct 28 11:29:01 nightmare slapd[11118]: conn=1217 op=0 STARTTLS Oct 28 11:29:01 nightmare worker_nscd: nss-ldap: do_open: do_start_tls failed:stat=-1 Oct 28 11:29:01 nightmare slapd[11118]: connection_read(14): TLS accept failure error=-1 id=1217, closing Oct 28 11:29:01 nightmare slapd[11118]: conn=1217 fd=14 closed (TLS negotiation failure) Oct 28 11:29:01 nightmare slapd[11118]: conn=1218 op=0 STARTTLS Oct 28 11:29:01 nightmare worker_nscd: nss-ldap: do_open: do_start_tls failed:stat=-1
Augh. If you can stop using nscd all this will be much easier for you. I personally like nslcd rather than nss-ldap, but each to their own.
If not, restart nscd before you start every troubleshooting round.
Oct 28 11:29:01 nightmare slapd[11118]: connection_read(14): TLS accept failure error=-1 id=1218, closing Oct 28 11:29:01 nightmare slapd[11118]: conn=1218 fd=14 closed (TLS negotiation failure)
First I would test that all the CA certs and server certs in use are understandable by each other. Does the server cert on the machine running slapd validate against the CA cert on the machine running ldapsearch? Does the server cert on the machine running slapd validate against the CA cert on the client machine?
openssl verify -CAfile cacert.pem servercert.pem
If the output says "ok" then the actual cert part is fine.
At this point I would crank up the slapd debug level (run it in the foreground) and match it again your ldap client debug logs. See if you can reproduce the error above using a client like ldapsearch, using the same search parameters as the nss-ldap client would use.
[if you want more of the log, I can obviously get it, but these appear to be the important parts.]
This is probably a configuration error, or a logical / architecture misunderstanding, ok, I ‘m a newbie. Do I have certificates incorrectly generated? [certificates were generated via [1]http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/185.html]. What did I do wrong?
This is running openldap 2.4.26 off of Suse 12.1 milestone 5.
I'm getting a puppetized starttls working with 2.4.26/openssl on debian, but much the same thing.
Thanks in advance. tob
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