#
# LDAP Defaults
#
 
# See ldap.conf(5) for details
# This file should be world readable but not world writable.
 
BASE    dc=example,dc=com
URI ldaps://vaps014.example.com:636 ldap://vaps014.example.com
 
#SIZELIMIT  12
#TIMELIMIT  15
#DEREF      never
 
# TLS setup:
ssl on
TLS_CACERT  /etc/openldap/ssl/cacert.pem
TLS_REQCERT allow
TLS_CACERTDIR   /etc/ssl/certs
 
HOST    vaps014.example.com

Note: The TLS_CACERTDIR /etc/ssl/certs configuration enables all CA certs, which are configured in your openssl package. If your public certificate is not installed by default you need to add it in /etc/ssl/certs directory! Just follow the step described in this chapter: CA certifcates.

You must create a configuration file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ldaps.conf to configure LDAPS depend settings:

LDAPVerifyServerCert On
LDAPTrustedMode SSL
<Location /ldap-status>
    SetHandler ldap-status
    Require host 172.16.193.61 localhost
    Include /etc/apache2/custom.d/authint_ap.conf
</Location>

This is not the preferred way to configure SSL in LDAP, but you don't need to change anything in case of certification change on LDAP server (AD).

Just create a configuration file (/etc/apache2/conf.d/ldaps.conf) and put following content into it:

LDAPVerifyServerCert Off
LDAPTrustedMode SSL
<Location /ldap-status>
    SetHandler ldap-status
    Require host 172.16.193.61 localhost
    Include /etc/apache2/custom.d/authint_ap.conf
</Location>

In this configuration, no additional setup is required. The connection works without any pain.

Of course, you should change your LDAP url in each LDAP authentication directive to ldaps://xxx.

Get the certificate from official certification reseller and put it into /etc/ssl/cert folder. You must hash link the new file for SSL, just use this make-ca-symlinks.sh script to do it:

/opt/jobs/make-ca-symlinks.sh --dir /etc/ssl/certs

This generate for all not symlinked certifications the hash link.

First, you must get the certificate using this small script from LDAP server:

#!/bin/sh
#
# usage: get-ssl-cert.sh remote.host.name [port]
#
REMHOST=$1
REMPORT=${2:-443}
 
openssl s_client -connect ${REMHOST}:${REMPORT} 2>&1 |\
sed -ne '/-BEGIN CERTIFICATE-/,/-END CERTIFICATE-/p'

An example for ad.example.com on port 636:

get-ssl-cert.sh ad.example.com 636

Now, you must configure (add the certificat in) openldap to use this certification chain file. Just add this line into/etc/openldap/ldap.conf:

TLS_CACERT  /etc/openldap/ssl/cacert.pem

You can list the certifates inside the cacert.pem file using this script:

/opt/jobs/read-all-certs-in-chain.pl -f cacert.pem

==> Certificate #1:
subject= /C=CH/ST=Zurich/O=Trivadis AG/OU=IT/CN=vaps014.example.com/emailAddress=servicedesk@example.com
issuer= /C=CH/ST=Zurich/O=Trivadis AG/OU=IT/CN=vaps014.example.com/emailAddress=servicedesk@example.com
==> Certificate #2:
subject= /CN=sdcs001.example.com
issuer= /C=CH/O=SwissSign AG/CN=SwissSign Server Silver CA 2014 - G22

Note: Openldap on SLES 11 does not examin the /etc/ssl/certs directory, for official certificates!