1 .TH SLAPD 8C "19 September 1999" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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6 slapd \- Stand-alone LDAP Daemon
9 .B [\-f slapd\-config\-file]
12 .B [\-n service\-name] [\-s syslog\-level] [\-l syslog\-local\-user]
13 .B [\-u user] [\-g group]
18 is the stand-alone LDAP daemon. It listens for LDAP connections on
19 any number of ports (default 389), responding
20 to the LDAP operations it receives over these connections.
22 is typically invoked at boot time, usually out of
26 normally forks and disassociates itself from the invoking tty.
28 .BR ETCDIR/slapd.conf ,
31 process will print its process ID ( see
35 file, as well as the command line options during invocation to an
42 flag is given, even with a zero argument,
44 will not fork and disassociate from the invoking tty.
47 can be configured to provide replicated service for a database with
50 the standalone LDAP update replication daemon.
55 See "The SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide" for more details on
59 .BI \-d " debug\-level"
60 Turn on debugging as defined by
62 If this option is specified, even with a zero argument,
64 will not fork or disassociate from the invoking terminal. Some general
65 operation and status messages are printed for any value of \fIdebug\-level\fP.
66 \fIdebug\-level\fP is taken as a bit string, with each bit corresponding to a
67 different kind of debugging information. See <ldap.h> for details.
69 .BI \-s " syslog\-level"
72 at what level debugging statements should be logged to the
76 .BI \-n " service\-name"
77 Specifies the service name for logging and other purposes. Defaults
78 to basename of argv[0], i.e.: "slapd".
80 .BI \-l " syslog\-local\-user"
81 Selects the local user of the
83 facility. Values can be
90 However, this option is only permitted on systems that support
95 .BI \-f " slapd\-config\-file"
96 Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is
97 .BR ETCDIR/slapd.conf .
103 (LDAP over TCP on all interfaces on default LDAP port). That is,
104 it will bind to using INADDR_ANY and port 389.
107 option may be used to specify LDAP (and LDAPS) URLs to serve.
108 For example, if slapd is given
109 .B \-h " ldap://127.0.0.1:9009/ ldaps:/// ldapi:///",
110 It will bind 127.0.0.1:9009 for LDAP, INADDR_ANY:636 for LDAP over TLS,
111 and LDAP over IPC (Unix domain sockets).
112 A space separated list of URLs is expected. The URLS should be of
113 LDAP (ldap://) or LDAP over TLS (ldaps://) or LDAP over IPC (ldapi://)
114 scheme without a DN or other optional parameters. Support for the
115 latter two schemes depends on selected configuration options. Hosts
116 may be specified by name or IPv4 and IPv6 address formats.
117 Ports, if specfied, must be numeric. The default ldap:// port is 389
118 and the default ldaps:// port is 636.
122 will run slapd with the specified user name or id, and that user's
123 supplementary group access list as set with initgroups(3). The group ID
124 is also changed to this user's gid, unless the -g option is used to
129 will run with the specified group name or id.
131 Note that on some systems, running as a non-privileged user will prevent
132 passwd back-ends from accessing the encrypted passwords. Note also that
133 any shell back-ends will run as the specified non-privileged user.
137 and have it fork and detach from the terminal and start serving
138 the LDAP databases defined in the default config file, just type:
148 with an alternate configuration file, and turn
149 on voluminous debugging which will be printed on standard error, type:
153 LIBEXECDIR/slapd -f ETCDIR/slapd.conf -d 255
162 "The SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide"
164 See http://www.openldap.org/its/
167 is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
169 is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.