From: Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...>
Date: 2009-06-03T02:31:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Something Not going with my LDAP using SSL

Brian Candler wrote:
> This isn't really going anywhere, so I'll ask the same question one more 
> time. What happens if you do this in irb?
> 
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'openssl'
> => true
> 
> Do you get "true" like I do, or something else?

irb(main):001:0> require 'openssl'
=> true
irb(main):002:0>


> 
>> I am not finding LDAP::SSLConn or SSLConn in my /usr tree
> ...
>> Can you recommend a way to get the sources off Ubuntu?
> 
> 1. Go to google
> 2. Type "ruby LDAP::SSLConn"
> 
> The top hit is the ruby-ldap project in Sourceforge. So that's the 
> easiest way to look at the current source.

Okay great.  I will take your suggestion and fit this in as my secondary project 
today.  I should be able to get this.
> 
> The next question is, how did you install ruby-ldap?

I believe it got installed by installing apt-get libactiveldap-ruby, which was 
what I originally intended to use, but then all the simplest examples for what I 
wanted were for plain ruby-ldap, so I checked it and it had already been 
installed.  Perhaps I need to apt-get install from another package though.
> 
> (1) If you installed it using 'gem install ...' then the code will be in 
> your gems directory, which I believe is /var/lib/gems/1.8 in Ubuntu (I 
> don't have an Ubuntu box with Ubuntu ruby to hand right now)
> 
> (2) If you installed it from an Ubuntu package, then maybe it has been 
> broken in a Debian way to separate out the ssl functionality.
> 
> $ apt-cache search ldap | grep ruby
> libactiveldap-ruby - an object-oriented interface to LDAP for Ruby
> libactiveldap-ruby-doc - an object-oriented interface to LDAP for Ruby
> libactiveldap-ruby1.8 - an object-oriented interface to LDAP for Ruby
> libldap-ruby1.8 - OpenLDAP library binding for Ruby 1.8

Actually, that is the exact command I used to find it.
> 
> So if you have libldap-ruby1.8 installed, you can find the files using
> 
> dpkg-query -L libldap-ruby1.8
> 
> If this contains only compiled binaries (e.g. .so libraries) then you 
> can get the Ubuntu source
> 
> apt-get source libldap-ruby1.8
> 
> which will create the source inside a new directory under the current 
> directory.

Okay.  That's what I needed.  Last time I did stuff like this was in 2002 I 
think and I used tgz files and such.
> 
> The debian/changelog suggests that ssl support should be included:
> 
> libldap-ruby (0.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * new upstream version.
>   * enabled ssl support.
> 
> However the dependencies in debian/control don't list 
> libopenssl-ruby1.8, so I'm not entirely convinced it's correct.
> 
> Anyway, all the C code is there for you to look at. If it were me, I 
> would remove the debian libldap-ruby1.8 and install ruby-ldap again from 
> source, checking carefully all the configure options to ensure that ssl 
> is enabled. You'll also need the build dependencies of course; at least 
> build-essential, libssl-dev and libldap2-dev

Okay.  The onus is on me then.  I will likely follow your instructions exactly. 
  I should be able to get started before noon if I'm not pulled off by a fire.

Thank you very much again for your support Brian.

Sincerely, Xeno
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Brian.