On Wednesday 24 November 2004 11:44, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004, Florin Angelescu wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 November 2004 16:57, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004, Florin Angelescu wrote:
> > > > Hello
> > > > I am trying to set up an ssl acces to ldap
> > > > following http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/185.html
> > > >
> > > > i created my ca
> > > > and signed the certificates for the server and  client
> > > > but i still get a 'self signed error'
> > > > i checked and i saw that it was because of cacert.pem which is
> > > > selfsigned
> > > >
> > > > question : how to solve this ???
> > > > (do i have to sign the CA certificate by another CA ? and how ? )
> > > > thank you very much
> > >
> > > Firstly I'd suggest you use CA.pl instead of CA.sh which is older.
> > >
> > > What is giving you the error? If its a client then you'd need to
> > > include a command line switch or configuration option telling it to
> > > include 'cacert.pem' in its trusted list of CAs.
> > >
> > > Steve.
> > > --
> >
> > Thank you for answering.
> > The error is given by ldapsearch ( and ldap.conf & sldap.conf are well
> > configured).
> > The error is also reported by openssl.
> > "self signed certificate in certification chain"
> > (the CA certificate)
>
> The problem is not that you have a self signed CA it is that the software
> doesn't trust it. The configuration or command line options should provide
> a means of specifying a file or directory containing trusted CAs. You
> should change them to include 'cacert.pem'.
>
> Steve.
i used CA.pl -newcert
i thought it does everything for me ....
here is what i got

ldap misc # openssl verify demoCA/cacert.pem
demoCA/cacert.pem: 
/C=BE/ST=BEGLIUM/L=BRUSSELS/O=CAAMI_CA1/OU=CCI/CN=CAAMI_CA1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
error 18 at 0 depth lookup:self signed certificate
OK

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