diff --git a/client/ipa-join.c b/client/ipa-join.c
index 4426740d3..16a903b46 100644
--- a/client/ipa-join.c
+++ b/client/ipa-join.c
@@ -692,9 +692,6 @@ join_krb5_jsonrpc(const char *ipaserver, char *hostname, char **hostdn, const ch
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, chunk);
 
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CAINFO, DEFAULT_CA_CERT_FILE);
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1_2);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, &jsonrpc_handle_response);
 
     /* delegating authentication to gssapi */