NAME¶

Net::SSLGlue::LDAP - proper certificate checking for ldaps in Net::LDAP

SYNOPSIS¶

    use Net::SSLGlue::LDAP;
    local %Net::SSLGlue::LDAP = ( SSL_verifycn_name => $hostname_in_cert );
    my $ldap = Net::LDAP->new( $hostname, capath => ... );
    $ldap->start_tls;

DESCRIPTION¶

Net::SSLGlue::LDAP modifies Net::LDAP so that it does proper certificate checking using the "ldap" SSL_verify_scheme from IO::Socket::SSL.

Because Net::LDAP does not have a mechanism to forward arbitrary parameters for the construction of the underlying socket these parameters can be set globally when including the package, or with local settings of the %Net::SSLGlue::LDAP::SSLopts variable.

All of the "SSL_*" parameters from IO::Socket::SSL can be used; the following parameter is especially useful:

SSL_verifycn_name

Usually the name given as the hostname in the constructor is used to verify the identity of the certificate. If you want to check the certificate against another name you can specify it with this parameter.

"SSL_ca_path", "SSL_ca_file" for IO::Socket::SSL can be set with the "capath" and "cafile" parameters of Net::LDAP::new and "SSL_verify_mode" can be set with "verify", but the meaning of the values differs ("none" is 0, e.g. disable certificate verification).

SEE ALSO¶

IO::Socket::SSL, LWP, Net::LDAP

COPYRIGHT¶

This module is copyright (c) 2008, Steffen Ullrich. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.