Thanks Rosenberg for your suggestions. The issue was with wrong path mentioned for certificate files. Without commenting the TLSCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:+SSLv2 line, also I could start slapd

-----Original Message----- From: E.S. Rosenberg [mailto:esr@g.jct.ac.il] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 10:06 PM To: Naga Chaitanya Palle Cc: openldap-technical@openldap.org Subject: Re: TLS issue

2011/8/4 Naga Chaitanya Palle Naga.Chaitanya@aricent.com:

Hi,

I am trying to configure tls for my ldap server.

After successfully creating the below files, I try to start the ldap server and it fails.

/etc/openldap/cacerts/cacert.pem

/etc/openldap/cacerts/slapd-cert.pem

/etc/openldap/cacerts/slapd-key.pem

The log shows the below messages

main: TLS init def ctx failed: -1

slapd stopped.

connections_destroy: nothing to destry.

Slapd.conf

TLSCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:+SSLv2

Try removing this line, if I'm not mistaken it's according to openssl syntax while openldap is (usually) compiled against gnu-tls which uses a different syntax. Also SSLv2 is generally not considered secure so unless you have some apps that cant do SSLv3 or better (TLSv1 == SSLv3.1) you should turn SSLv2 of.

TLSCACertificateFile /etc/openldap/cacerts/cacert.pem

TLSCertificateFile /etc/openldap/cacerts/slapd-cert.pem

TLSCertificateKeyFile /etc/openldap/cacerts/slapd-key.pem

Are your certs self-signed or from a CA? Did you make sure that the private key cert (and the other certs too?) are not stored encrypted (-nodes switch in openssl).

database bdb

suffix "dc=comverse-in,dc=com"

rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=comverse-in,dc=com"

rootpw {SSHA}hBlwVEbzHMzm1Wof9Lb1dA/fcuJDt6pr

You may want to change your password since you have posted the hash (and also your domain) it is now possible to start brute forcing (or use rainbow tables) the hash and since the domain where this hash was used is known (and at least the LDAP username) that is a big security leak.

Other than that version info and debug info (as Dan asks) is always good to provide when you have a question. Regards, Eli

/etc/openldap/ldap.conf

BASE dc=comverse-in,dc=com

URI ldaps://devonly144.comverse-in.com

TLS_CACERT /etc/openldap/cacerts/cacert.pem

TLS_CACERTDIR /etc/openldap/cacerts

TLS_REQCERT allow

/etc/ldap.conf

base dc=comverse-in,dc=com

uri ldaps://devonly144.comverse-in.com

ssl on

Thanks and Regards,

Naga chaitanya

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