On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 08:32 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
>
> > Now, I have a few servers in our local office and I would like them to
> > authenticate from the remote LDAP server using encryption via
> > ldaps://.
> > (at this stage, without using client-side certificate)
> >
> > I have run a similar command as I did on the remote servers, replacing
> > ldap://localldapserver by ldaps://ldap.mycompany.com:
> > authconfig --enableldap --enableldapauth --enablecache
> > --enablemkhomedir --ldapserver=ldaps://ldap.mycompany.com
> > --enableldaptls --ldapbasedn=dc=mycompany,dc=com --passalgo=sha256
> > --updateall
> >
> > and I put the CA certificate at the right place.
> > (either explicitly pointing to it TLS_CACERT or downloading it to
> > /etc/openldap/cacerts vi system-configuration-authentication)
> >
> > In all my various tests,
> > ldapsearch -x
> > returns the content of the remote LDAP, so I guess that at least
> > openldap clients are properly configured.
> >
> > But when I try:
> > getent passwd
> > the command hangs.
>
> I've never done ldaps to port 636, only TLS to port 389, so some of my
> comments may be slightly off-base in your situtation.
>
> Here are the changes I'd review:
>
> 1. After installing the CA cert, did you create a hash link? E.g.,
>
> /usr/sbin/cacertdir_rehash /etc/openldap/cacerts
>
> 2. Make sure you know the difference between /etc/ldap.conf and
> /etc/openldap/ldap.conf. The former is used by nss_ldap, the
> latter by openldap clients.
>
> 3. Does /etc/ldap.conf have all the correct TLS entries, e.g.,
>
> ssl start_tls
> tls_checkpeer yes
> tls_cacertdir /etc/openldap/cacerts
>
> Additionally, I've had trouble using the "uri" directive
> in /etc/ldap.conf, esp. with encrypted connections. The
> "host" and "port" directives have worked better for me.
>
> 4. Does /etc/pam.d/system-auth have pam_ldap.so entries for
> auth, account, password, and session?
>
> 5. Are you running nscd? (I've found it indispensable when working
> with network auth.)
>
> 6. Review the changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf to make sure that
> the passwd, shadow, and group entries all query ldap.
----
tls_checkpeer yes could cause problems - always depends
nscd makes things harder to troubleshoot
uri ldap://some_fqdn/
or
uri ldaps://some_fqdn/
Craig
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