[SAMBA4][PATCH] Make tls a socket backend

simo idra at samba.org
Sat Apr 29 22:24:17 GMT 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 23:31 +0200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> This patch attempts to remove the abstraction between TLS and normal
> sockets from most of the Samba code.  It is now a property of the socket
> API (enabling TLS returns a new socket structure, to use in place of the
> original).
> 
> The purpose of writing this patch was to see if it would also be
> practical to put GENSEC in the same position as GNUTLS, for bulk data
> encryption.  Both should be abstracted away from the calling application
> IMHO.
> 
> Any comments?  Suggestions for test-cases to look at?

I am not sure this patch is correct wrt tls support in ldap client
libraries, can you check you can connect to an AD LDAP server using SSL
before checking this in ?

Simo.

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