On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Miguel Baptista wrote: can u give more detail on the error information. try using -d -1 on ur ldapsearch that should more detailed info. i assume u have installed ldap with ssl support (and the correct path to ssl libraries) also check if ur server permission to read the CA certs (server as root shuld b ok) best bet try with -d -1 and that should b sufficient to find out the reason. lemme know if this helps, sivaI'm using Openldap v.2.1.22 and openSSL 0.9.7b I start my server with this command line: /usr/local/libexec/slapd -d9 -h "ldap:/// ldaps:///"PORT 636 TLS_CACERT /var/myca/estagio/cacert.pem TLS_REQCERT demand My .ldaprc (in my user's home) TLS_REQCERT demand # client authentication TLS_CERT /home/miguel/client.pem TLS_KEY /home/miguel/client.key.pem When i try this: ldapsearch -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=uminho,dc=pt" '(objectclass=*)' -H ldaps://estagio -W I got this error (in ldap server ): TLS trace: SSL_accept:before/accept initialization TLS: can't accept. connection_read(13): TLS accept error error=-1 id=4, closing and with this: ldapsearch -x -D "cn=Manager,dc=uminho,dc=pt" '(objectclass=*)' -H ldaps://estagio -w "secret" -ZZ i got the same error I tried the testing commands (from the how to, and everything seams ok): openssl s_client -connect myserver.com:636 ... Can anyone help? I'm forgeting something? I've read something about the environment variable LDAPNOINIT, is this necessary? Best Regards