On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 1:08 PM, SOMA SEKHAR <[email protected]> wrote:

> link to question on stackoverflow
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25457034/starttls-succesful-even-after-deleting-ca-from-the-ca-dir>
>
>
> I'm having trouble verifying the correct behavior of my software. Here are
> the steps I am performing to verify correct operation:
>
>    1. I have sample code that uses openldap library and doing a start tls
>    to a ldap server.
>    2. I have set the global option for ca cert directory and tlx context
>    for the first time.
>    3. After that I did ldap init and ldap start tls to a server. This is
>    succesful as expected.
>    4. I did an ldap_unbind_s
>    5. I deleted the CA cert that signed the ldap server's certificate
>    from the ca cert directory of the client.
>    6. Again did ldap_init and ldap_start_tls_s .
>    7. I expected this call to fail , as I have removed the ca cert. But
>    what I observe is that , server sends the certificate but start_tls is
>    returning success.
>
> I am using openldap 2.4 with libssl.0.9.8
>
> LDAP *ld;int desired_version=3;
> if ((ld = ldap_init(<hostname>, <server_port>)) == NULL ) {
>     printf("ldap_init failed\n");
>     exit(0);}
>
> ldap_set_option(ld, LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, &desired_version);
> ldap_set_option(NULL, LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_CTX, NULL);
> ldap_set_option(NULL, LDAP_OPT_X_TLS_CACERTDIR,"<ca dir>");
> if(ldap_start_tls_s(ld, NULL, NULL) != LDAP_SUCCESS){
>     printf("start tls failed.\n");
>     exit(0);}
> ...... <do bind and search>...
>
> ldap_unbind_s(ld);        ...
> // DELETE the CA certificate from the ca dir.    // Try to do start tls again
> if ((ld = ldap_init(hostname, server_port)) == NULL ) {
>     printf("ldap_init failed , after deleting CA\n");
>     exit(0);}
> // This goes fine even after deleting the CAif (ldap_start_tls_s(ld, NULL, 
> NULL) != LDAP_SUCCESS){
>     printf("start tls failed after deleting CA.\n");
>     exit(0);}
>
>
> --
> Thanks&Regards,
> SomaSekhar.
>
>


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Thanks&Regards,
SomaSekhar.

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