support for wildcard certficates

[Rahul Amaram]

Hi Michael,
Thanks for the response. I think you have pointed to the correct 
problem. ldapwhoami seems to be using ldap library version 2.3.30 
whereas python-ldap is probably using 2.1.30. And from this post 
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200504/msg00304.html it 
is evident that support for wildcart certificates has been incorporated 
in a version in between these two.

Thanks a ton for the immediate response.

Regards,
Rahul.


Michael Ströder wrote:
> Rahul Amaram wrote:
>> I have set up a ldap server with a wildcard certificate. Upon trying 
>> to establish a TLS connection using python ldap, I get the error 
>> "TLS: hostname does not match CN in peer certificate". This works 
>> fine if I use a certificate with the exact domain name. Is this a 
>> bug? Are there any known solutions to this? Looking forward to a 
>> response.
>
> Well, personally I'd recommend not to use wildcard certs at all
> => I never tested anything like this.
>
> python-ldap simply relies on OpenLDAP libs which in turn rely on 
> OpenSSL. Hmm, so this should be probably raised on the 
> openldap-software mailing list.
>
>> P.S: "ldapwhoami" command establishes a TLS connection properly even 
>> when using a wild-card certificate. So I am assuming it might be a 
>> problem with python-ldap library.
>
> You might wanna dive into the source of ldapwhoami and look up which 
> options they set. BTW: Are you sure that your local python-ldap 
> installation uses the same OpenLDAP client libs like the ldapwhoami 
> command-line tool?
>
> Ciao, Michael.