Re: Understanding TLS SSF

On Wednesday 30 July 2008 15:59:52 J Davis wrote:

Greetings,

I'm testing an installation of openldap 2.4.9. I want to enforce TLS for all access to the directory. My problem is that I cannot get the client to meet the ssf restictions I have in place. The documentation I've seen on ssf and tls_ssf is very sparse so I don't really understand what it does.

I'm using self signed cert created using the openssl CA.sh script.

Relevant portions of the slapd.conf...

TLSCACertificateFile /etc/ldap/ssl/cacert.pem
TLSCertificateFile /etc/ldap/ssl/servercrt.pem
TLSCertificateKeyFile /etc/ldap/ssl/serverkey.pem
...
access to *
    by tls_ssf=128 ssf=128 anonymous auth
    by tls_ssf=128 ssf=128 self write

Relevant portions of the lapd.conf...

TLS_CACERT /etc/ldap/ssl/cacert.pem

With those ACLs in place I get the following error:

$ ldapsearch -x -ZZ -D "uid=jake,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" -W -b

"uid=jake,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)

And slapd in debug mode shows me that I didn't meet the ssf requirments...

connection_read(15): unable to get TLS client DN, error=49 id=0
conn=0 fd=15 TLS established tls_ssf=32 ssf=32
...
<= check a_authz.sai_tls_ssf: ACL 128 > OP 32

What ssl implementation is your slapd using ?