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From: "Dieter Klünter" dieter@dkluenter.de To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Sent: Thursday, 27 December, 2012 3:53:21 PM Subject: Re: Forcing TLS encryption
Am Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:14:39 +0100 (CET) schrieb Wiebe Cazemier wiebe@halfgaar.net:
In order to initiate Transport Layer Security you have to call the extended operation ldapSTARTTLS.
-Dieter
-- Dieter Klünter | Systemberatung http://dkluenter.de GPG Key ID:DA147B05 53°37'09,95"N 10°08'02,42"E
I understand that, but this way, even when you're forcing TLS, users can still expose their passwords if their computers are mal-configured. SMTP, IMAP, FTP, etc don't allow this, because they reject the connection if LOGINNAME is given before STARTTLS.
It's kind of a security issue. Is it because in LDAP, username and password are given as one command, and the server doesn't have the chance to abort at that point? If so, then I guess it's unavoidable.