LDAP over SSL

[John Smith]

I'm trying to make a ldap connection using SSL well I'm not sure why I am
getting the following message. If anyone could help me out.

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command prompt
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Starting to execute
Binding...
javax.naming.CommunicationException: pitt-auth-07.srv.cssd.pitt.edu:636.
Root exception is java.net
..SocketException: Default SSL context init failed: null
at javax.net.ssl.DefaultSSLSocketFactory.createSocket(DashoA6275)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39
)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl
..java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.createSocket(Connection.java:311)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:181)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.<init>(LdapClient.java:119)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.getInstance(LdapClient.java:1668)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.connect(LdapCtx.java:2556)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.<init>(LdapCtx.java:275)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURL(LdapCtxFactory.java:173)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURLs(LdapCtxFactory.java:191)
at
com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getLdapCtxInstance(LdapCtxFactory.java:136)
at
com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getInitialContext(LdapCtxFactory.java:66)
at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:662)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:243)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:219)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:195)
at
javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.<init>(InitialDirContext.java:80)
at LDAPConn.bindAs(LDAPConn.java:45)
at LDAPConn.main(LDAPConn.java:66)
Fininished....!

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public void bindAs ( String principal, String credentials, String baseDN) {
env = new Hashtable();
env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
"com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");

env.put(Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, "simple");

env.put(Context.REFERRAL, "ignore");
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PROTOCOL, "ssl");
//THE LOCATION OF THE CACERTS MUST BE SPECIFIED
java.security.Security.addProvider(new
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStore",
"c:\\j2sdk1.4.0_01\\jre\\lib\\security\\cacerts");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore",
"c:\\j2sdk1.4.0_01\\jre\\lib\\security\\cacerts");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStoreType", "jks");
env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, baseDN );
env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, principal);
env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, credentials);
DirContext ctx = null;
try {
ctx = new InitialDirContext(env);
System.out.println("bind Successful...");
ctx.close();
} catch(AuthenticationException aex) {
System.out.println("Invalid userid or password... Please try again");
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}

} // bindAs


public static void main(String[] args) {
String principal = "user name";
String credentials = "password";
String baseDN = "ldap://ldaphost:636";
System.out.println("Starting to execute");
LDAPConn testUser = new LDAPConn();
System.out.println("Binding...");
testUser.bindAs( principal, credentials, baseDN );
System.out.println( "Fininished....!");
} // main