This may be at heart a certificate issue. I've been trying to get kaddressbook working with SSL access to the company LDAP; it's been failing with a dialog:
'Could not connect to host ldaps://cn%3d' [rest of URL omitted]. Running a query against the same server using the command line ldapsearch (in ldap-utils) also failed. The problem turned out to be that a full certificate chain is required. The LDAP server is operating with a certificate signed by the company CA. The company CA certificate is not trusted by the standard Debian CAs. I created a company subdirectory in /usr/share/ca-certificates, copied the company CA certificate into that subdirectory, ran dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates and marked the company CA certificate as activated. ldapsearch then worked. The next problem is to make KDE use the system CA certificate collection. In /usr/share/kde4/apps/kssl I did: mv ca-bundle.crt ca-bundle.crt.orig ln -s /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt ca-bundle.crt and LDAP lookups in KAddressBook and KMail now work. http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/node/46 (thanks, Rene!) shows a permanent alternative to the above that will withstand KDE upgrades. I have the Debian Qt-KDE team KDE 4.6 packages on one machine. There I could add the CA certificates using the Settings 'SSL Preferences' dialog. However, I found I still needed to add the CA to the Debian list too; just adding it to KDE wasn't sufficient. -- Jim Hague - jim.ha...@acm.org Never trust a computer you can't lift. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org