I am about to install OpenLDAP with SSl support using letsencrypt, so I am blocked now with the question where I find the CACERT? Can someone help quick? Is there a way to find out?

How did you go about getting your certificate in the first place? Usually that comes along in a second file called chain.pem.

When you say CACERT - do you mean the actual ROOT CA cert? Or the chained CA cert (between the cert and the root)? Just for reference: cert.pem = public cert chain.pem = all intermediate certs root.pem (would be the root cert; but no one hands those out - bad idea - they should already be known…

this what they want me to supply ( http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/185.html ) TLSCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:+SSLv2 TLSCACertificateFile /usr/local/etc/openldap/cacert.pem TLSCertificateFile /usr/local/etc/openldap/servercrt.pem TLSCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/etc/openldap/serverkey.pem my ce…

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Although different sources use this terminology a bit differently, in my interpretation the chain, strictly speaking, includes the end-entity certificate as well as the intermediate certificates, so in that sense the fullchain.pem is the full chain, while chain.pem is only a partial chain. (But it’s…

Why is the CA Cert File not supplied along with cert and key?

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schoen November 3, 2017, 10:21pm 5

Here the correspondences are:

chain.pem → cacert.pem
cert.pem → servertcrt.pem
privkey.pem → serverkey.pem

Letsencrypt chain.pem or trusted root list cert?

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Why is the CA Cert File not supplied along with cert and key?

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