Central Authentication

The CENTral AUthentication Replacement (Centaur) project provides the University with a highly available, redundant central authentication service using the LDAP protocol.

Centaur can be used for authentication by connecting to the host centaur.unimelb.edu.au on port 389 or 636. Encryption (TLS) must be used to successfully bind to the service.

The CA cert used to sign the centaur server certs is:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIEGDCCA4GgAwIBAgIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQQFADCBvzELMAkGA1UEBhMCQVUx
ETAPBgNVBAgTCFZpY3RvcmlhMRIwEAYDVQQHEwlNZWxib3VybmUxJDAiBgNVBAoT
G1RIZSBVbml2ZXJzaXR5IG9mIE1lbGJvdXJuZTEdMBsGA1UECxMUSW5mb3JtYXRp
b24gRGl2aXNpb24xGjAYBgNVBAMTEUNlbnRhdXIgU2VydmVyIENBMSgwJgYJKoZI
hvcNAQkBFhlwb3N0bWFzdGVyQHVuaW1lbGIuZWR1LmF1MB4XDTA1MDUxMTA0NDQx
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b3JpYTESMBAGA1UEBxMJTWVsYm91cm5lMSQwIgYDVQQKExtUSGUgVW5pdmVyc2l0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b24xGjAYBgNVBAMTEUNlbnRhdXIgU2VydmVyIENBMSgwJgYJKoZIhvcNAQkBFhlw
b3N0bWFzdGVyQHVuaW1lbGIuZWR1LmF1ggEAMAwGA1UdEwQFMAMBAf8wDQYJKoZI
hvcNAQEEBQADgYEApAVPwoQnevzUeef2VmIt683IBIovJ8uxJNQ6BGT3LMz+sbgB
0vGfWjXk0PxNufbG0dS0eYs6fJoNK+dr5TDnytUboWD0vuE4PK2k1uEFTJtwkahR
Ch/y1lZQuUZNan9yykh5mcK95h6unXGw+vPvyHKLPt5yUI7vkxjuqJ27LLY=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----