Hi , I have my ca cert in a dir and I am setting the CACERTDIR option in openldap global options. *ldap_set_option(NULL, LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_CACERTDIR, <my dir path>)*. After that , I started the tls connection using '*ldap_start_tls_s*' , followed by '*ldap_bind_s*'. This worked fine. What I did not understand is that , even after removing the ca cert from that directory , ldap bind succeeds. Does it mean that certificate verification is not done for the second time by SSL_connect? I have just started on openldap and gone through the code in version 2.4 and openssl-fips-1.2 , searched in google,stackoverflow etc . Can anyone please help me with some information or pointers on this. -- Thanks&Regards, SomaSekhar.