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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/en/xml/administration.xml | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/en/xml/administration.xml b/docs/en/xml/administration.xml index 7a75604de..9924a742e 100644 --- a/docs/en/xml/administration.xml +++ b/docs/en/xml/administration.xml @@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ port) of your LDAP server. If no port is specified, it assumes the default LDAP port of 389. </para> - <para>Ex. <quote>ldap.company.com</quote> + <para>For example: <quote>ldap.company.com</quote> or <quote>ldap.company.com:3268</quote> </para> <para>You can also specify a LDAP URI, so as to use other @@ -643,9 +643,16 @@ the URI, the default is either 389 or 636 for 'LDAP' and 'LDAPS' schemes respectively. </para> - <para>Ex. <quote>ldap://ldap.company.com</quote>, - <quote>ldaps://ldap.company.com</quote> or - <quote>ldapi://%2fvar%2flib%2fldap_sock</quote> + <tip> + <para> + In order to use SSL with LDAP, specify a URI with "ldaps://". + This will force the use of SSL over port 636. + </para> + </tip> + <para>For example, normal LDAP: + <quote>ldap://ldap.company.com</quote>, LDAP over SSL: + <quote>ldaps://ldap.company.com</quote> or LDAP over a UNIX + domain socket <quote>ldapi://%2fvar%2flib%2fldap_sock</quote>. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |