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4 .TH SLAPD 8C "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
6 slapd \- Stand-alone LDAP Daemon
10 .B [\-T {add|auth|cat|dn|index|passwd|test}]
12 .B [\-f slapd\-config\-file]
14 .B [\-n service\-name] [\-s syslog\-level] [\-l syslog\-local\-user]
16 .B [\-u user] [\-g group]
21 is the stand-alone LDAP daemon. It listens for LDAP connections on
22 any number of ports (default 389), responding
23 to the LDAP operations it receives over these connections.
25 is typically invoked at boot time, usually out of
29 normally forks and disassociates itself from the invoking tty.
31 .BR ETCDIR/slapd.conf ,
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 slatest. This option
70 should be the first option specified when it is used. Any remaining options
71 will be interpreted by the corresponding slap tool program. Note that these
72 tool programs will usually be symbolic links to slapd. This option is provided
73 for situations where symbolic links are not provided or not usable.
75 .BI \-d " debug\-level"
76 Turn on debugging as defined by
78 If this option is specified, even with a zero argument,
80 will not fork or disassociate from the invoking terminal. Some general
81 operation and status messages are printed for any value of \fIdebug\-level\fP.
82 \fIdebug\-level\fP is taken as a bit string, with each bit corresponding to a
83 different kind of debugging information. See <ldap.h> for details.
84 Remember that if you turn on packet logging, packets containing bind passwords
85 will be output, so if you redirect the log to a logfile, that file should
88 .BI \-s " syslog\-level"
91 at what level debugging statements should be logged to the
95 .BI \-n " service\-name"
96 Specifies the service name for logging and other purposes. Defaults
97 to basename of argv[0], i.e.: "slapd".
99 .BI \-l " syslog\-local\-user"
100 Selects the local user of the
102 facility. Value can be
112 However, this option is only permitted on systems that support
117 .BI \-f " slapd\-config\-file"
118 Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is
119 .BR ETCDIR/slapd.conf .
123 will by default serve
125 (LDAP over TCP on all interfaces on default LDAP port). That is,
126 it will bind using INADDR_ANY and port 389.
129 option may be used to specify LDAP (and other scheme) URLs to serve.
130 For example, if slapd is given
131 .BR "\-h \(dqldap://127.0.0.1:9009/ ldaps:/// ldapi:///\(dq" ,
132 it will listen on 127.0.0.1:9009 for LDAP, 0.0.0.0:636 for LDAP over TLS,
133 and LDAP over IPC (Unix domain sockets). Host 0.0.0.0 represents
134 INADDR_ANY (any interface).
135 A space separated list of URLs is expected. The URLs should be of
136 LDAP (ldap://) or LDAP over TLS (ldaps://) or LDAP over IPC (ldapi://)
137 scheme without a DN or other optional parameters, except an experimental
138 extension to indicate the permissions of the underlying listeners.
139 Support for the latter two schemes depends on selected configuration
140 options. Hosts may be specified by name or IPv4 and IPv6 address formats.
141 Ports, if specified, must be numeric. The default ldap:// port is 389
142 and the default ldaps:// port is 636.
143 The socket permissions for LDAP over IPC are indicated by
144 "x-mod=-rwxrwxrwx", "x-mod=0777" or "x-mod=777", where any
145 of the "rwx" can be "-" to suppress the related permission (note,
146 however, that sockets only honor the "w" permission), while any
147 of the "7" can be any legal octal digit, according to chmod(1).
148 While LDAP over IPC requires write permissions on the socket to allow
149 any operation, the other listeners can take advantage of the "x-mod"
150 extension to apply rough limitations to users, e.g. allow read operations
151 ("r", which applies to search and compare), write operations ("w",
152 which applies to add, delete, modify and modrdn), and execute operations
153 ("x", which means bind is required).
154 "User" permissions apply to bound users, while "other" apply
158 Specifies a directory to become the root directory. slapd will
159 change the current working directory to this directory and
162 to this directory. This is done after opening listeners but before
163 reading any configuration file or initializing any backend. When
164 used as a security mechanism, it should be used in conjunction with
172 will run slapd with the specified user name or id, and that user's
173 supplementary group access list as set with initgroups(3). The group ID
174 is also changed to this user's gid, unless the -g option is used to
175 override. Note when used with
177 slapd will use the user database in the change root environment.
179 Note that on some systems, running as a non-privileged user will prevent
180 passwd back-ends from accessing the encrypted passwords. Note also that
181 any shell back-ends will run as the specified non-privileged user.
185 will run with the specified group name or id. Note when used with
187 slapd will use the group database in the change root environment.
190 This option provides a cookie for the syncrepl replication consumer.
191 The cookie is a comma separated list of name=value pairs.
192 Currently supported syncrepl cookie fields are
198 is the commit sequence number received by a previous synchronization
199 and represents the state of the consumer replica content which the
200 syncrepl engine will synchronize to the current provider content.
202 is the identity of the per-scope session log with which the
203 provider server can process this syncrepl request to reduce
204 synchronization traffic.
206 identifies a replication thread within the consumer server
207 and is used to find the syncrepl specification in
209 having the matching replication identifier in its definition.
213 and have it fork and detach from the terminal and start serving
214 the LDAP databases defined in the default config file, just type:
224 with an alternate configuration file, and turn
225 on voluminous debugging which will be printed on standard error, type:
229 LIBEXECDIR/slapd -f /var/tmp/slapd.conf -d 255
233 To test whether the configuration file is correct or not, type:
244 .BR slapd.access (5),
253 "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)
255 See http://www.openldap.org/its/
258 is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
260 is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.