Re: Any benefit to extracting the PEM files?

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Thanks. I've been using them for now, I was just hoping for an easier route.

Thanks for your help,

Trevor

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 7:53 PM William Brown <wbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Sadly not. We still need NSS as the main TLS lib for accepting incoming connections, so we need them in the nssdb.

There are a number of helpers in 'dsconf <instance> tls' to assist here though and it can automaticaly do the conversions you need.

> On 11 Feb 2021, at 10:48, Trevor Vaughan <tvaughan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Interesting!
>
> You may want to put that in the documentation.
>
> On a related note, is it possible to use PEM files directly instead of messing about with conversions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Trevor
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 5:53 PM William Brown <wbrown@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > On 10 Feb 2021, at 23:17, Trevor Vaughan <tvaughan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I noticed that the server was extracting the PEM files from the keystore by default and was wondering if there was really any use for this being on by default.
> >
> > The relevant setting is nsslapd-extract-pemfiles.
>
> Yep, it's needed. Internally we use some openldap client libraries for outbound connections, and they only support openssl and PEM certificates. So we need to extract these at start up and feed them to the library.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Trevor
> >
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