disable ldap hostname verification?

Rod Widdowson rdw at steadingsoftware.com
Tue May 15 07:21:14 BST 2012


https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/ResolverLDAPDataConnector

points to 

http://code.google.com/p/vt-middleware/wiki/vtldap

from which 
http://code.google.com/p/vt-middleware/wiki/vtldapTLS

suggests that 

java.naming.ldap.factory.socket=javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory

will do what you want... (set via <LDAPProperty/>)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Baron Fujimoto
> Sent: 15 May 2012 02:14
> To: Shib Users
> Subject: disable ldap hostname verification?
> 
> Is there a way to disable hostname verification for LDAPS in 2.3.6 via IdP config files?  I understand
> that it's there for the security update, but due to peculiarities of our current architecture[*],
> we're getting tripped up by this. Unless there's a way to disable this, we'll have to forego upgrading
> our IdP until we can figure out a workaround.
> 
> [*] ldap hosts behind a load-balanced virtual host, the SSL cert is issued for the virtual hostame.
> However, because we have suspected issues with our load balancer, I've been pointing our attribute
> resolver at the pool of real ldap hosts behind the virtual host - but these hostnames don't match the
> SSL cert's.
> 
> -baron
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