Workgroup Manager and Linux LDAP server: Server Admin SSL and Web-ASIP

[paul]

Philip Mötteli schrieb:
> If I try to connect directly, so without the long way round an 
> OpenDirectory server, I see the following error message in the console:
> 
>     /Applications/Server/Workgroup Manager.app/Contents/MacOS/Workgroup 
> Manager: [664] ServerManager session failed in 
> connect(ldapserver,192.168.1.5,311): 61\n
> 
> 
> The port number 311 is marked in Server Admin as "Server Admin SSL, also 
> Web-ASIP". I'm afraid, but this is probably something Mac OS X unique? 
> So I can't offer it on a Linux box? And it seems, without that, 
> Workgroup Manager refuses to connect directly?
Apple says it's https, you can change this to http (port 687) by 
disabling "secure connection" in Server Admin use a network sniffer and 
reverse engineer the protocol ;)

cheers
  Paul

BTW: I'm interested in your experience about OS X/Linux integration, I'm 
currently evaluating LDAP replication and having password information 
available on our linux servers (OpenDirectory as the main datasource). 
It's not fun.