I am trying to resolve a problem whereby trying to set a users password over LDAP is failing because of an access denied error - even though I am authenticating against the AD with an admin user.
An answer found in stackoverflow says that either I have to run the IIS user as the admin user (which does work) or i should connect to LDAP via SSL.
I cant go with the first option because I am using Elastic Beanstalk which will create and terminate instances so i cant change/set the user that IIS will be running as. So I am trying to use the LDAP over SSL idea.
My question is does that still require that the client itself also have a certificate installed in order to establish trust with the Domain controller? Or does this work just by installing a cert on the Domain controller and allowing the connection over SSL?
If it requires a certificate on the client then I have the same problem as i cant install anything on the client server other than the deployed app since Beanstalk is going to recereate and terminate that instance at will.
So does LDAPS require a cert on the client?
Is there a better way to solve my problem given the infrastructure i am using?
So does LDAPS require a cert on the client?
no, LDAPS do not require client certificate. Domain controller certificate is sufficient to utilize LDAPS. More details about LDAPS and certificate requirement: LDAP over SSL (LDAPS) Certificate
trying to set a users password over LDAP is failing because of an access denied error
there might be over9000 reasons why you receive this message. You need to check whether you are successfully authenticated on DC, if yes, check whether you have permissions and privileges (especially, if UAC is enabled). I would set up audit policies (on failed user password changes) and check Security eventlog to figure out what is going wrong.
No.
For openldap, I achieved this by adding this line to ldap.conf. But be aware of that, when you do that, your connections will be open to attacks like man-in-the-middle or any other.
TLS_REQCERT never
This is what I found using trial and error approach:
Actually, LDAPS server always asks for client certificate. You can verify that by turning on SCHANNEL log and observing the following message:
If there is no client authentication certificate than LDAPS connection still succeeds, i.e. no client authentication certificate is required indeed. But if you have some invalid client authentication certificate (in my case it was an expired cert installed long ago by a third party app) the connection will fail w/o any error or warning in SCHANNEL log on the client side. It took me a while to figure this out.
Yes of corse your client need a certificate to allow ladps communication betwen
him and de server.
According to
windowsitpro.com:
As an option, you can use LDAPS for client authentication -- but doing so requires that you also install a client authentication certificate on each of your clients."
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Am i out of luck or is there an option to specify that only a single path/endpoint should require client certificate ?
The scenario:
IdentityServer4 gives our users the option to sign in multiple ways (Username/Password, Azure AD or ClientCertificate)
The first two are working as intended, but the certificate paths does not prompt the user for his/her certificate, i know its possible with IIS but we want to run this using Kestrel.
If i setup the projects kestrel setting to require cert all endpoints requires it, this ruins the user experience when signing in with username/password og azure ad.
Are there any options for setting only out localhost/certificate path to require certificate and then in turn prompt the user to provide their cert when being redirected to that paths endpoints if there is no cert present in the request?
Resolved it by setting up two hosts, and capturing the request in the certificate challange endpoint and checking the connection, if there's no certificate present AND the connection is using the non-requirecert connection i redirected the context to the right connection and was then prompted to supply the cert and login works as intended.
Hey everyone and thanks in advance for any feedback you might have on this.
Got a web application that is trying to authenticate an AD user via LDAPS. The application server in this case being the client and a DC with LDAPS being the server, during TLS handshake, client certificate authentication is requested by the DC and this process takes quite a long time to complete as it seems it is trying to iterate over each certificate that has "Client Authentication" enabled (and there are quite a few of them to go over).
Is there any way on the client (the web app server running Windows) to "force" or "suggest" what certificate gets presented first? If not, is there any way on the server (the DC with LDAPS enabled) to specify that the server only wants to see certificates from a specific CA?
I have had a look into TLS negotiation documentation and so far was not able to find an answer to this question.
The LdapConnection class has a SessionOptions property allowing to set a handler named QueryClientCertificate which can then return a certificate to use.
I don't know if someone is familiar with Tivoli Directory Server (ldap) but I guess there is something more or less the same in every ldap software.
So, there is a setting for ssl authentication which can be serverClientAuth and serverAuth. With serverAuth it is sufficient for the server to provide the certificate and the client (jxplorer) just accepts it to connect. With serverClientAuth except from the certificate provided by the server also the client needs to have its certificate on the server.
In my setup I have the serverClientAuth setting. So I was wondering if it is possible for jxplorer to provide the client certificate to the ldap server.
Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks.
Yes it is possible, and there is a menu provided specifically for that purpose, which lets you define they KeyStore, truststore, and various other SSL things.
Ever since moving an internal apex website from the embedded PL/SQL gateway to a weblogic server browsers throw certificate errors.
How can i get rid of these errors/fix the certificates?
Internet Explorer:
The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by
a trusted certificate authority. Security certificate problems may
indicate an attempt to fool you or intercept any data you send to the server
Chrome:
You attempted to reach sy02131.adt.com, but the server presented a
certificate issued by an entity that is not trusted by your computer's
operating system. This may mean that the server has generated its own
security credentials, which Google Chrome cannot rely on for identity
information, or an attacker may be trying to intercept your communications.
Out of the box, the embedded SQL gateway (EPG) uses no SSL. It looks like your Weblogic instance did or even requires SSL. It's probably using a set of starter keys that you're meant to replace. At any rate, your browser is causing this problem, not the server. You should be able to bypass this as a warning in the browser or add an exception. If you want this error to go away in production, get some proper SSL keys from a certificate authority.
Here is how to configure them once you get them:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/secmanage/ssl.html
I have the error "The X.509 certificate ... chain building failed. The certificate that was used has a trust chain that cannot be verified. Replace the certificate or change the certificateValidationMode. The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline."
I get this error when I run my wcf service in IIS with an apppool under the "ApplicationPoolIdentity". I have given the "ApplicationPoolIdentity" accounts (iis apppool*) private key access permissions to the certificates in the store. It works fine under "Network Service". The certificate is internally issued from one of our domain controllers. I thought that Microsoft wants websites to be run under "ApplicationPoolIdentity" now. Is there a way to give the correct permissions to the "ApplicationPoolIdentity" in order to avoid this error or should I just use "Network Service" instead?
What you will probably notice when you put a network sniffer like WireShark on the line, is that the identity that your application pool is running under is not allowed to go to the location mentioned as URL in the revocation parameter in your certificate chain. That problem does not occur when the application pool is running under the NETWORK service account, as you describe.
As stated by the error logged to you, you can also change the revocationMode="NoCheck" to disable WCF checking for revoked certificates. Read http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa347699.aspx for details. But you should only do that either is a safe closed environment or for development purposes.