1 .TH LDAP.CONF 5 "29 November 1998" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
4 ldap.conf \- ldap configuration file
10 configuration file is used to set system-wide defaults to be applied when
14 Note that each user may specify an optional configuration file,
16 in his/her home directory which will be used to override system-wide
17 defaults file. The user may also provide a local configuration
20 which will be used to override per-user and system-wide defaults.
21 Environmental variables may be used to file based defaults.
23 The different configuration options are:
27 Used to specify the default base dn to use when performing ldap operations.
28 The base must be specified as a Distinguished Name in LDAP format.
29 \fBHOST <name[:port] ...>\fP
30 Used to specify the name(s) of an LDAP server(s) to which
32 library should connect to. Each server's name can be specified as a
33 domain-style name or an IP address and optionally followed a ':' and
34 the port number the ldap server is listening on. A space separated
35 listed of host may be provided.
38 Used to specify the port used with connecting to LDAP servers(s).
39 The port may be specified as a number.
41 \fBSIZELIMIT <integer>\fP
42 Used to specify a size limit to use when performing searches. The
43 number should be an non-negative integer. \fISIZELIMIT\fP of zero (0)
44 specifies unlimited search size.
46 \fBTIMELIMIT <integer>\fP
47 Used to specify a time limit to use when performing searches. The
48 number should be an non-negative integer. \fITIMELIMIT\fP of zero (0)
49 specifies unlimited search time to be used.
51 \fBDEREF <never|searching|finding|always>\fP
52 Specify how aliases dereferencing is done. \fIDEREF\fP should
59 to specify that aliases are never dereferenced, always dereferenced,
60 dereferenced when searching, or dereferenced only when locating the
61 base object for the search. The default is to never dereference aliases.
67 Kurt Zeilenga, The OpenLDAP Project
70 is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
72 is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.