problems with LDAP TLS and nss_ldap on 5.2.1

mkes at ra.rockwell.com mkes at ra.rockwell.com
Tue Jun 8 04:26:15 PDT 2004


I have upgraded our LDAP server to 5.2.1Release running openldap-2.1.30 
server/client + pam_ldap-1.6.9 + nss_ldap-1.204_5.  The previous 
configuration (openldap20-2.0.25_4 + nss_ldap-1.204_1 + pam_ldap-1.6.1) 
was runing OK on FreeBSD 5.1R 

After the upgrade I have 2 major problems. 

1) I'm not able to make the ldap server to work with TLS. 
The previous installation worked fine but I haven't properly backed up TLS 
certificates and I had to generate them again using the approach described 
at http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/185.html 
As soon as I add these TLS options to the slapd.conf:

# TLS options for slapd
TLSCipherSuite         HIGH:MEDIUM:+SSLv2
TLSCACertificateFile   /usr/local/etc/openldap/cacert.pem
TLSCertificateFile     /usr/local/etc/openldap/servercrt.pem
TLSCertificateKeyFile  /usr/local/etc/openldap/servercrt.pem

... running "/etc/rc.d/slapd start" doesn't  even start the server but 
doesn't complain either. So I have no clue what's going wrong and right 
now I have to run the server without TLS.


2) The second problem is with nss_ldap. 
I have installed the server first, loaded data to the directory, tried 
some searches etc. Everything worked OK (except for the TLS). Nomaly, the 
startup of the server takes about 1 second. As soon as I install nss_ldap 
(in the very moment I run make install on that port) the startup time of 
the ldap server slows down to 30+ seconds and I also experienced cases 
when it didn't start at all. If I deinstall the nss_ldap the server 
startup is quick again.


Any ideas of what can be wrong in either case would be really welcome. 

Thanks

Mira


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