1 .TH SLAPD-SHELL 5 "30 April 2002" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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6 slapd-shell \- Shell backend to slapd
12 executes external programs to implement operations, and is designed to
13 make it easy to tie an existing database to the
19 options apply to the SHELL backend database.
20 That is, they must follow a "database shell" line and come before any
21 subsequent "backend" or "database" lines.
22 Other database options are described in the
43 These options specify the pathname of the command to execute in response
44 to the given LDAP operation.
45 Note that you need only supply configuration lines for those commands you
46 want the backend to handle.
47 Operations for which a command is not supplied will be refused with an
48 "unwilling to perform" error.
50 There is a skeleton search script in the slapd/back-shell/ directory
51 in the OpenLDAP source tree.