Re: OpenLDAP with ssl client certs
Howard Chu wrote:
Brent Bice wrote:
> I was recently asked if we could use ssl client certs as a 2nd form
> of authentication with OpenLDAP and didn't know for sure. Is it
> possible to have OpenLDAP require both a DN/password pair *and* a client
> ssl cert?
You can make the server require a client cert, but it won't use the
certificate identity for anything unless you Bind with SASL/EXTERNAL.
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/sasl.html#EXTERNAL
And naturally, if you're using SASL, then the DN/password pair is ignored.
BTW:
In case of client certs the cert's subject-DN is the authc-DN which can be
directly used in authz-regexp which very much ties the mapping to subject-DN
conventions of the PKI.
But in some cases it would be very handy to map a distinct client cert to a
authz-DN by issuer-DN/serial or even by fingerprint. One use-case is cert
pinning of client certs and revocation checking done off-line.
Should I file an ITS for that?
Ciao, Michael.
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