On 02 Feb 2019, at 01:57, Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 9:25 AM Graham Leggett <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote:
>> On 25 Sep 2018, at 04:09, Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>> Some people like to use DNS SRV records to advertise LDAP servers on
>>> their network.  Microsoft Active Directory is usually (always?) set up
>>> that way.  Here is a patch to allow our LDAP auth module to support
>>> that kind of discovery.
>> 
>> Does this support SSL/TLS?
> 
> I didn't try it myself but I found several claims that it works.  I
> see complaints that it always looks for _ldap._tcp and not _ldaps._tcp
> as you might expect when using ldascheme=ldaps, but that doesn't seem
> to be a big problem.  As for ldaptls=1, that must work because it
> doesn't even negotiate that until after the connection is made.

If the LDAP server was bound to port 636, how would the client know to use a 
direct SSL/TLS connection and not STARTTLS?

Regards,
Graham
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