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4 .TH SLAPD 8C "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
6 slapd \- Stand-alone LDAP Daemon
10 .B [\-T {acl|add|auth|cat|dn|index|passwd|test}]
12 .B [\-f slapd\-config\-file]
13 .B [\-F slapd\-config\-directory]
15 .B [\-n service\-name] [\-s syslog\-level] [\-l syslog\-local\-user]
17 .B [\-u user] [\-g group]
22 is the stand-alone LDAP daemon. It listens for LDAP connections on
23 any number of ports (default 389), responding
24 to the LDAP operations it receives over these connections.
26 is typically invoked at boot time, usually out of
30 normally forks and disassociates itself from the invoking tty.
31 If configured in the config file (or config directory),
34 process will print its process ID (see
38 file, as well as the command line options during invocation to an
44 flag is given, even with a zero argument,
46 will not fork and disassociate from the invoking tty.
49 can be configured to provide replicated service for a database with
52 the standalone LDAP update replication daemon.
57 See the "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" for more details on
62 Listen on IPv4 addresses only.
65 Listen on IPv6 addresses only.
68 Run in Tool mode. The additional argument selects whether to run as
69 slapadd, slapcat, slapdn, slapindex, slappasswd, or slaptest
70 (slapacl and slapauth need the entire "\fIacl\fP" and "\fIauth\fP"
71 option value to be spelled out, as "\fIa\fP" is reserved to
73 This option should be the first option specified when it is used;
74 any remaining options will be interpreted by the corresponding
75 slap tool program, according to the respective man pages.
76 Note that these tool programs will usually be symbolic links to slapd.
77 This option is provided for situations where symbolic links
78 are not provided or not usable.
80 .BI \-d " debug\-level"
81 Turn on debugging as defined by
83 If this option is specified, even with a zero argument,
85 will not fork or disassociate from the invoking terminal. Some general
86 operation and status messages are printed for any value of \fIdebug\-level\fP.
87 \fIdebug\-level\fP is taken as a bit string, with each bit corresponding to a
88 different kind of debugging information. See <ldap.h> for details.
89 Remember that if you turn on packet logging, packets containing bind passwords
90 will be output, so if you redirect the log to a logfile, that file should
93 .BI \-s " syslog\-level"
96 at what level debugging statements should be logged to the
100 .BI \-n " service\-name"
101 Specifies the service name for logging and other purposes. Defaults
102 to basename of argv[0], i.e.: "slapd".
104 .BI \-l " syslog\-local\-user"
105 Selects the local user of the
107 facility. Value can be
117 However, this option is only permitted on systems that support
122 .BI \-f " slapd\-config\-file"
123 Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is
124 .BR ETCDIR/slapd.conf .
126 .BI \-F " slapd\-config\-directory"
127 Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is
133 are specified, the config file will be read and converted to
134 config directory format and written to the specified directory.
135 If neither option is specified, slapd will attempt to read the
136 default config directory before trying to use the default
137 config file. If a valid config directory exists then the
138 default config file is ignored.
142 will by default serve
144 (LDAP over TCP on all interfaces on default LDAP port). That is,
145 it will bind using INADDR_ANY and port 389.
148 option may be used to specify LDAP (and other scheme) URLs to serve.
149 For example, if slapd is given
150 .BR "\-h \(dqldap://127.0.0.1:9009/ ldaps:/// ldapi:///\(dq" ,
151 it will listen on 127.0.0.1:9009 for LDAP, 0.0.0.0:636 for LDAP over TLS,
152 and LDAP over IPC (Unix domain sockets). Host 0.0.0.0 represents
153 INADDR_ANY (any interface).
154 A space separated list of URLs is expected. The URLs should be of
155 the LDAP, LDAPS, or LDAPI schemes, and generally
156 without a DN or other optional parameters (excepting as discussed below).
157 Support for the latter two schemes depends on selected configuration
158 options. Hosts may be specified by name or IPv4 and IPv6 address formats.
159 Ports, if specified, must be numeric. The default ldap:// port is 389
160 and the default ldaps:// port is 636.
161 The socket permissions for LDAP over IPC are indicated by
162 "x-mod=-rwxrwxrwx", "x-mod=0777" or "x-mod=777", where any
163 of the "rwx" can be "-" to suppress the related permission (note,
164 however, that sockets only honor the "w" permission), while any
165 of the "7" can be any legal octal digit, according to chmod(1).
166 While LDAP over IPC requires write permissions on the socket to allow
167 any operation, the other listeners can take advantage of the "x-mod"
168 extension to apply rough limitations to users, e.g. allow read operations
169 ("r", which applies to search and compare), write operations ("w",
170 which applies to add, delete, modify and modrdn), and execute operations
171 ("x", which means bind is required).
172 "User" permissions apply to bound users, while "other" apply
176 Specifies a directory to become the root directory. slapd will
177 change the current working directory to this directory and
180 to this directory. This is done after opening listeners but before
181 reading any configuration file or initializing any backend. When
182 used as a security mechanism, it should be used in conjunction with
190 will run slapd with the specified user name or id, and that user's
191 supplementary group access list as set with initgroups(3). The group ID
192 is also changed to this user's gid, unless the -g option is used to
193 override. Note when used with
195 slapd will use the user database in the change root environment.
197 Note that on some systems, running as a non-privileged user will prevent
198 passwd back-ends from accessing the encrypted passwords. Note also that
199 any shell back-ends will run as the specified non-privileged user.
203 will run with the specified group name or id. Note when used with
205 slapd will use the group database in the change root environment.
208 This option provides a cookie for the syncrepl replication consumer.
209 The cookie is a comma separated list of name=value pairs.
210 Currently supported syncrepl cookie fields are
215 identifies a replication thread within the consumer server
216 and is used to find the syncrepl specification in
218 having the matching replication identifier in its definition. The
220 must be provided in order for any other specified values to be used.
222 is the commit sequence number received by a previous synchronization
223 and represents the state of the consumer replica content which the
224 syncrepl engine will synchronize to the current provider content.
228 and have it fork and detach from the terminal and start serving
229 the LDAP databases defined in the default config file, just type:
239 with an alternate configuration file, and turn
240 on voluminous debugging which will be printed on standard error, type:
244 LIBEXECDIR/slapd -f /var/tmp/slapd.conf -d 255
248 To test whether the configuration file is correct or not, type:
259 .BR slapd.access (5),
270 "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)
272 See http://www.openldap.org/its/
275 is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
277 is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.