The TLS configuration deliberately hid the error in case that user specified CA locations cannot be read, by loading CAs from default locations; and when user does not specify CA locations, the CAs from default locations are not read at all. This patch corrects the behaviour so that CAs from default location are used if user does not specify a CA location, and user is informed of the error if CAs cannot be loaded from the user specified location. Howard Guo 2016-11-10 diff -rupN openldap-2.4.41/libraries/libldap/tls_o.c openldap-2.4.41-patched/libraries/libldap/tls_o.c --- openldap-2.4.41/libraries/libldap/tls_o.c 2015-06-21 02:19:58.000000000 +0200 +++ openldap-2.4.41-patched/libraries/libldap/tls_o.c 2016-11-10 15:10:32.784147041 +0100 @@ -253,10 +253,16 @@ tlso_ctx_init( struct ldapoptions *lo, s return -1; } - if (lo->ldo_tls_cacertfile != NULL || lo->ldo_tls_cacertdir != NULL) { + if ( lo->ldo_tls_cacertfile == NULL && lo->ldo_tls_cacertdir == NULL ) { + if ( !SSL_CTX_set_default_verify_paths( ctx ) ) { + Debug( LDAP_DEBUG_ANY, "TLS: " + "could not use default certificate paths", 0, 0, 0 ); + tlso_report_error(); + return -1; + } + } else { if ( !SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations( ctx, - lt->lt_cacertfile, lt->lt_cacertdir ) || - !SSL_CTX_set_default_verify_paths( ctx ) ) + lt->lt_cacertfile, lt->lt_cacertdir ) ) { Debug( LDAP_DEBUG_ANY, "TLS: " "could not load verify locations (file:`%s',dir:`%s').\n",