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Junaid,

You've probably realized at this point that VCL does not support multiple 
LDAP servers per affiliation (I think we actually have a JIRA issue 
requesting this feature).  Depending on your security requirements, one 
option would be to disable the SSL certificate validation done for the 
LDAP connections.  You can disable it by adding the following line to 
/etc/openldap/ldap.conf:

TLS_REQCERT never

You'll need to restart httpd for that change to get picked up.

Generally, I don't recommend disabling validation of certificates, but I 
thought I'd share this as an option in case your situation would be okay 
without that level of security.

Josh

On Monday, July 11, 2016 1:31:08 PM Junaid Ali wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> Thanks for the pointer. In our case we use Active Directory for LDAP. I
> tried using the Active Directory domain name instead of a single server
> name, but using ldaps the certificate returned by the domain controller
> does not match the expected domain name and so VCL authentication 
fails.
> 
> Thanks.
> Junaid.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Jeffrey Kirby 
<[email protected]>
> 
> wrote:
> > Junaid,
> > 
> > I've always worked in environments where LDAP is in some sort of
> > high-availability configuration.  If you have the authority to do so 
(if
> > LDAP is under your control), try doing a search on LDAP load 
balancers,
> > open source or otherwise, and make sure they have failover/monitoring
> > capability.  A manual way that could do this for scheduled 
maintenance
> > only
> > would be a DNS change using a cname for the published LDAP hostname.
> > 
> > As for doing it in VCL configuration, I'm of no use.
> > 
> > jeff
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > From:        Junaid Ali <[email protected]>
> > To:        [email protected]
> > Date:        07/08/2016 12:39 PM
> > Subject:        Multiple LDAP Servers
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I was wondering if we can have multiple LDAP servers specified within 
the
> > $authMechs affiliation entry (e.g. comma separated list of servers 
rather
> > than a single server). So that if one of the LDAP server is down for
> > maintenance, the next server could be used for authentication to the 
VCL
> > website.
> > Any ideas/suggestions?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > Junaid
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