Re: slapd-meta idassert with SASL EXTERNAL not working correctly

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Hi,

I'm trying to set up OpenLDAP as a Proxy for multiple LDAP servers using slapd-meta. The remote servers require SASL EXTERNAL authentication, so I have to configure TLS client auth.

The relevant part of my slapd.conf looks like this:

database meta suffix "dc=example"

uri "ldaps://server2:636/cn=server2,dc=example" idassert-authzFrom "dn:*" idassert-bind bindmethod=sasl saslmech=EXTERNAL tls_cert=mycert.crt tls_key=mycert.key tls_cacert=trusted-ca.pem mode=none

Add

tls start

here to request TLS to be established on connections (see slapd-meta(5) for details). I think this should be implicitly enabled by idassert-bind when it requires TLS (or at least its need should be documented).

p.