Just basic stuff...I promise I have been through the wiki and the Administrator's guide (managing SSL and SASL) several times. Using openssl generated CA certificate and used that to sign CSR's from console application and loaded them all into console application. Have restarted FDS and it seems to be happy - but just to confirm... lifted from /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-srv1/logs/errors [09/Dec/2005:08:33:47 -0700] - Fedora-Directory/1.0.1 B2005.342.165 starting up [09/Dec/2005:08:33:47 -0700] - No symmetric key found for cipher AES in backend userRoot, attempting to create one... [09/Dec/2005:08:33:47 -0700] - Key for cipher AES successfully generated and stored [09/Dec/2005:08:33:47 -0700] - No symmetric key found for cipher 3DES in backend userRoot, attempting to create one... [09/Dec/2005:08:33:47 -0700] - Key for cipher 3DES successfully generated and stored [09/Dec/2005:08:33:47 -0700] - No symmetric key found for cipher AES in backend NetscapeRoot, attempting to create one... [09/Dec/2005:08:33:48 -0700] - Key for cipher AES successfully generated and stored [09/Dec/2005:08:33:48 -0700] - No symmetric key found for cipher 3DES in backend NetscapeRoot, attempting to create one... [09/Dec/2005:08:33:48 -0700] - Key for cipher 3DES successfully generated and stored [09/Dec/2005:08:33:48 -0700] - slapd started. Listening on All Interfaces port 389 for LDAP requests [09/Dec/2005:08:33:48 -0700] - Listening on All Interfaces port 636 for LDAPS requests MY PROBLEM # ldapsearch -ZZ '(uid=jim)' ldap_start_tls: Connect error (-11) additional info: Start TLS request accepted.Server willing to negotiate SSL. # tail -n4 /opt/fedora-ds/slapd-srv1/logs/access [09/Dec/2005:11:55:26 -0700] conn=83 op=5 fd=68 closed - U1 [09/Dec/2005:12:00:58 -0700] conn=84 fd=68 slot=68 connection from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.1 [09/Dec/2005:12:00:58 -0700] conn=84 op=0 EXT oid="1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.20037" name="startTLS" [09/Dec/2005:12:00:58 -0700] conn=84 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=120 nentries=0 etime=0 [09/Dec/2005:12:00:58 -0700] conn=84 op=-1 fd=68 closed - Encountered end of file. # tail -n 7 /etc/openldap/ldap.conf URI ldap://srv1.clsurvey.com HOST srv1.clsurvey.com BASE dc=clsurvey,dc=com TLS_CACERTDIR /etc/ssl TLS_CACERT server.crt pam_password md5 TLS_REQCERT allow My thinking is that this somehow has something to do with the TLS_CACERT in /etc/openldap/ldap.conf (the certificate for the client). Would this be the issue? Is there a better method for creating the client certificate from either the CA certificate (generated by openssl) or from the FDS Server Certificate (also generated by openssl)? Craig