Prashanth Sundaram wrote: > Rich, > > Andrey?s suggestion worked. Yes, I have enabled SSL in the Admin > server and Directory Server. But it still would fall back on 389-ds > password, when ?pamsecure=TRUE?. If I set pamsecure=FALSE, the > authentication passed through to the AD as intended. > > How do I secure the communication between 389-ds and LDAP server? I'm not sure what you mean - 389-ds is the LDAP server? > I used wireshark to capture packets, and it?s all clear. man pam_ldap - you'll have to configure /etc/ldap.conf to use TLS and provide a CA cert. > > > > > To revisit, here's the observation: pamsecure when set to TRUE > authenticates > users only to the password in 389-ds, but when set to FALSE will > authenticate to the AD password only if the uid exists in /etc/passwd. > > That's really bizarre - the only place where pamSecure is used is here: > if (cfg->pamptconfig_secure) { /* is a secure connection required? */ > int is_ssl = 0; > slapi_pblock_get(pb, SLAPI_CONN_IS_SSL_SESSION, &is_ssl); > if (!is_ssl) { > slapi_log_error( SLAPI_LOG_PLUGIN, PAM_PASSTHRU_PLUGIN_SUBSYSTEM, "<= > connection not secure (secure connection required; check config)"); > return retcode; > } > } > That is, if pamSecure is true, requests will be rejected unless using > TLS/SSL. Do you have your directory server configured to use TLS/SSL > when using pamSecure: TRUE? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > 389 users mailing list > 389-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3258 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20090922/415bf91c/attachment.bin