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    LDAPS connection without CA

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    • maxxerM
      maxxer @heper
      last edited by

      @heper thanks, indeed that could work, but it's making the things from down up. I'd rather find a solution using my own certs/setup

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        heper @maxxer
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        @maxxer well it's up to you if you want to make things more difficult then they have to be

        enjoy

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        • maxxerM
          maxxer @heper
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          @heper I simply don't want to depend on pfSense to deploy a certificate in Samba or whatever other service

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            heper @maxxer
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            @maxxer well that's up to you.

            you can setup a CA on any other device, that is not pfsense, to depend upon for your certificate chain then

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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              How can pfSense authenticate the server if it doesn't have a CA cert to authenticate it against?

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              • maxxerM
                maxxer @stephenw10
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                What puzzles me, I'm creating a CA following this guide, but pfSense says the cert created is not for a CA but for a simple cert.

                The command is:

                openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key myCA.key -sha256 -days 1825 -out myCA.pem
                
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                  heper @maxxer
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                  @maxxer you did import your created CA on your pfsense device right ?

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                  • maxxerM
                    maxxer @heper
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                    @heper said in LDAPS connection without CA:

                    @maxxer you did import your created CA on your pfsense device right ?

                    Yes, when I import in pfSense CA it says:

                    The submitted certificate does not appear to be a Certificate Authority, import it on the Certificates tab instead.

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                      heper @maxxer
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                      @maxxer then you are doing something wrong ....

                      i followed ur guide to create the CA & copy/pasted it to one of my pfsense devices and it imported just fine.

                      it doesn't like the privatekey because pfsense doesn't seem to like encrypted privatekeys. (lose the -des3)

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                      • maxxerM
                        maxxer @heper
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                        @heper thanks for testing. Shame on me, I was running the commands on macOS and not on Linux. Trying on the latter worked, indeed! Damn mac, how much wasted time on this!! Thanks again

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