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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]
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.
32 .BR ETCDIR/slapd.conf ,
35 process will print its process ID (see
39 file, as well as the command line options during invocation to an
45 flag is given, even with a zero argument,
47 will not fork and disassociate from the invoking tty.
50 can be configured to provide replicated service for a database with
53 the standalone LDAP update replication daemon.
58 See the "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" for more details on
63 Listen on IPv4 addresses only.
66 Listen on IPv6 addresses only.
69 Run in Tool mode. The additional argument selects whether to run as
70 slapadd, slapcat, slapdn, slapindex, slappasswd, or slatest. This option
71 should be the first option specified when it is used. Any remaining options
72 will be interpreted by the corresponding slap tool program. Note that these
73 tool programs will usually be symbolic links to slapd. This option is provided
74 for situations where symbolic links are not provided or not usable.
76 .BI \-d " debug\-level"
77 Turn on debugging as defined by
79 If this option is specified, even with a zero argument,
81 will not fork or disassociate from the invoking terminal. Some general
82 operation and status messages are printed for any value of \fIdebug\-level\fP.
83 \fIdebug\-level\fP is taken as a bit string, with each bit corresponding to a
84 different kind of debugging information. See <ldap.h> for details.
85 Remember that if you turn on packet logging, packets containing bind passwords
86 will be output, so if you redirect the log to a logfile, that file should
89 .BI \-s " syslog\-level"
92 at what level debugging statements should be logged to the
96 .BI \-n " service\-name"
97 Specifies the service name for logging and other purposes. Defaults
98 to basename of argv[0], i.e.: "slapd".
100 .BI \-l " syslog\-local\-user"
101 Selects the local user of the
103 facility. Value can be
113 However, this option is only permitted on systems that support
118 .BI \-f " slapd\-config\-file"
119 Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is
120 .BR ETCDIR/slapd.conf .
124 will by default serve
126 (LDAP over TCP on all interfaces on default LDAP port). That is,
127 it will bind using INADDR_ANY and port 389.
130 option may be used to specify LDAP (and other scheme) URLs to serve.
131 For example, if slapd is given
132 .BR "\-h \(dqldap://127.0.0.1:9009/ ldaps:/// ldapi:///\(dq" ,
133 it will listen on 127.0.0.1:9009 for LDAP, 0.0.0.0:636 for LDAP over TLS,
134 and LDAP over IPC (Unix domain sockets). Host 0.0.0.0 represents
135 INADDR_ANY (any interface).
136 A space separated list of URLs is expected. The URLs should be of
137 LDAP (ldap://) or LDAP over TLS (ldaps://) or LDAP over IPC (ldapi://)
138 scheme without a DN or other optional parameters, except an experimental
139 extension to indicate the permissions of the underlying listeners.
140 Support for the latter two schemes depends on selected configuration
141 options. Hosts may be specified by name or IPv4 and IPv6 address formats.
142 Ports, if specified, must be numeric. The default ldap:// port is 389
143 and the default ldaps:// port is 636.
144 The socket permissions for LDAP over IPC are indicated by
145 "x-mod=-rwxrwxrwx", "x-mod=0777" or "x-mod=777", where any
146 of the "rwx" can be "-" to suppress the related permission (note,
147 however, that sockets only honor the "w" permission), while any
148 of the "7" can be any legal octal digit, according to chmod(1).
149 While LDAP over IPC requires write permissions on the socket to allow
150 any operation, the other listeners can take advantage of the "x-mod"
151 extension to apply rough limitations to users, e.g. allow read operations
152 ("r", which applies to search and compare), write operations ("w",
153 which applies to add, delete, modify and modrdn), and execute operations
154 ("x", which means bind is required).
155 "User" permissions apply to bound users, while "other" apply
159 Specifies a chroot "jail" directory. slapd will
163 to this directory after opening listeners but before reading
164 any configuration file or initializing any backend.
168 will run slapd with the specified user name or id, and that user's
169 supplementary group access list as set with initgroups(3). The group ID
170 is also changed to this user's gid, unless the -g option is used to
175 will run with the specified group name or id.
177 Note that on some systems, running as a non-privileged user will prevent
178 passwd back-ends from accessing the encrypted passwords. Note also that
179 any shell back-ends will run as the specified non-privileged user.
182 This option provides a cookie for the syncrepl replication consumer.
183 The cookie is a comma separated list of name=value pairs.
184 Currently supported syncrepl cookie fields are
190 is the commit sequence number received by a previous synchronization
191 and represents the state of the consumer replica content which the
192 syncrepl engine will synchronize to the current provider content.
194 is the identity of the per-scope session log with which the
195 provider server can process this syncrepl request to reduce
196 synchronization traffic.
198 identifies a replication thread within the consumer server
199 and is used to find the syncrepl specification in
201 having the matching replication identifier in its definition.
205 and have it fork and detach from the terminal and start serving
206 the LDAP databases defined in the default config file, just type:
216 with an alternate configuration file, and turn
217 on voluminous debugging which will be printed on standard error, type:
221 LIBEXECDIR/slapd -f /var/tmp/slapd.conf -d 255
225 To test whether the configuration file is correct or not, type:
236 .BR slapd.access (5),
245 "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)
247 See http://www.openldap.org/its/
250 is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
252 is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.