On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:31:06PM -0700, Michael Hall wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:45:55PM +0200, Timo Veith wrote:
> 
> > Hello amavis list readers,
> > 
> > I want to suggest writing a little more about how to setuo a SSL 
> > connection in the LDAP section of the README.lookups file. It took me a 
> > considerable amount of time to find out that port 636 (default ssl port 
> > for ldaps) is not being used, although I specified ldaps://<ip>.
> > 
> > With ldapsearch (from the openldap tools) this is the default behaviour, 
> > thus I thought it would also be the case with amavisd-new. ldaps didn't 
> > work until I also specified port 636 explicitly.
> > 
> > This is my proposal:
> > 
> > ,---[ README.lookups ]-----------------------------------------------
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > Definitions and default values of LDAP parameters.
> > 
> >   hostname      : The hostname or IP address of the LDAP server to
> >                   connect to. A TCP port may be specified after the
> >                   host name followed by a colon (ex. localhost:389).
> >                   You can also specify a URI, such as:
> >                   'ldaps://127.0.0.1:666' or
> >                   'ldapi://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fopenldap%2Fldapi/'.
> >                   May also be a reference to an array of hosts,
> >                   host:port pairs, or URI's, each will be tried in
> >                   order until a connection is made.
> >                   (Default = 'localhost')
> >                   For ldaps you must specify the port where your ldap
> >                   server listens for SSL connections. Do this within
> >                   the URI or see the next parameter 'port'.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > `--------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Another alternative would be to switch the default port to 636 if someone 
> > speficies ldaps://... 
> 
> I've submitted an update to the code to set the default port to 636 if
> SSL/TLS (tls => 1) is specified.

Arrgh, this is incorrect, SSL != TLS. I've modified the code and will
submit a new patch to set the default port to 636 if 'ldaps://...' is
specifed in the hostname.

--
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

Mike Hall,
System Admin - Rock Island Communications           <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
System Admin - riverside.org, ssdd.org              <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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