Re: [AMaViS-user] ldaps and port number

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.

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System Admin - riverside.org, ssdd.org <mhall@riverside.org>


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