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authorLuke "Jared" Bennett <lbennett@gitlab.com>2017-08-31 09:17:23 +0100
committerLuke "Jared" Bennett <lbennett@gitlab.com>2017-08-31 09:17:23 +0100
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@@ -87,9 +87,12 @@ main: # 'main' is the GitLab 'provider ID' of this LDAP server
encryption: 'plain'
# Enables SSL certificate verification if encryption method is
- # "start_tls" or "simple_tls". (Defaults to false for backward-
- # compatibility)
- verify_certificates: false
+ # "start_tls" or "simple_tls". Defaults to true since GitLab 10.0 for
+ # security. This may break installations upon upgrade to 10.0, that did
+ # not know their LDAP SSL certificates were not setup properly. For
+ # example, when using self-signed certificates, the ca_file path may
+ # need to be specified.
+ verify_certificates: true
# Specifies the path to a file containing a PEM-format CA certificate,
# e.g. if you need to use an internal CA.