Re: [Evolution] ldap protocol problems

["Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper" <vR movingparts net>]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 15:40, Chris Toshok wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 10:26, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> > The server is openldap-1.2.9-5 (an old RH 6.2 box).  And I'm using TLS =
> > never.  So, it sounds like I'm pretty much out of luck with this version
> > of openldap?  And did this change between evo 1.0.8 and 1.2.0?
>
> Yeah, evo 1.0.8 didn't have any TLS stuff in it at all (for ldap), so it
> didn't need LDAPv3.
>
> So yeah, for the time being 1.2 is going to be unusable for you - I'll
> make a patch today that just does the v3 switch if you're using TLS,
> which should bring the next release/snapshot back into working order for
> you.
>
> Chris

Awesome!!  Would you be able/willing to send the patch (I'm assuming
it'll be against 1.2.0, not CVS HEAD) to me/the list?  Or, failing that,
where can I retrieve it from.  =:)  I'm eager to get this working
again!!  =:)

Thanks Chris!!!

> > On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 23:29, Chris Toshok wrote:
> > > At present evolution sets the connection to v3 when it initializes it,
> > > and there's no setting to drop the protocol to v2.  Which server are you
> > > running?
> > >
> > > The setting is mostly there because of the TLS stuff, so potentially it
> > > could be done only in the case where use_tls != never.
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 06:46, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> > > > I'm running debian sid and using evolution 1.2.0 with the below LDAP
> > > > versions installed.  Evolution version 1.0.8 used to work just fine and
> > > > dandy with the LDAP server at my work, but 1.2.0 now reports "We were
> > > > unable to open this addressbook. This either means you have entered an
> > > > incorrect URI, or the LDAP server is unreachable."  
> > > >
> > > > Mind you, none of my settings for this LDAP server have changed between
> > > > version 1.0.8 (where it was working), and 1.2.0 (where it's not).  
> > > >
> > > > I've played with the command-line "ldapsearch" utility and it looks to
> > > > me like my LDAP server isn't able to handle protocol version 3, but if I
> > > > force it to use protocol version 2 (by using "-P 2"), ldapsearch is able
> > > > to talk to the server.  
> > > >
> > > > So, my question...  Is it possible to force evolution to use a specific
> > > > LDAP protocol version for its lookups?  Or, is there a proper way to get
> > > > evolution to talk to my LDAP server again?  =:)
> > > >
> > > > TIA!!
> > > >
> > > > ii  ldap-utils     2.0.23-14      OpenLDAP utilities.
> > > > ii  libldap2       2.0.23-14      OpenLDAP libraries (without TLS support).
> > > > ii  libldap2-dev   2.0.23-14      OpenLDAP development libraries.
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