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4 .TH SLAPD 8C "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
6 slapd \- Stand-alone LDAP Daemon
11 .B [\-f slapd\-config\-file]
13 .B [\-n service\-name] [\-s syslog\-level] [\-l syslog\-local\-user]
15 .B [\-u user] [\-g group] [\-t]
20 is the stand-alone LDAP daemon. It listens for LDAP connections on
21 any number of ports (default 389), responding
22 to the LDAP operations it receives over these connections.
24 is typically invoked at boot time, usually out of
28 normally forks and disassociates itself from the invoking tty.
30 .BR ETCDIR/slapd.conf ,
33 process will print its process ID ( see
37 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.
67 .BI \-d " debug\-level"
68 Turn on debugging as defined by
70 If this option is specified, even with a zero argument,
72 will not fork or disassociate from the invoking terminal. Some general
73 operation and status messages are printed for any value of \fIdebug\-level\fP.
74 \fIdebug\-level\fP is taken as a bit string, with each bit corresponding to a
75 different kind of debugging information. See <ldap.h> for details.
76 Remember that if you turn on packet logging, packets containing bind passwords
77 will be output, so if you redirect the log to a logfile, that file should
80 .BI \-s " syslog\-level"
83 at what level debugging statements should be logged to the
87 .BI \-n " service\-name"
88 Specifies the service name for logging and other purposes. Defaults
89 to basename of argv[0], i.e.: "slapd".
91 .BI \-l " syslog\-local\-user"
92 Selects the local user of the
94 facility. Values can be
101 However, this option is only permitted on systems that support
106 .BI \-f " slapd\-config\-file"
107 Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is
108 .BR ETCDIR/slapd.conf .
112 will by default serve
114 (LDAP over TCP on all interfaces on default LDAP port). That is,
115 it will bind using INADDR_ANY and port 389.
118 option may be used to specify LDAP (and LDAPS) URLs to serve.
119 For example, if slapd is given
120 .B \-h " ldap://127.0.0.1:9009/ ldaps:/// ldapi:///",
121 It will bind 127.0.0.1:9009 for LDAP, 0.0.0.0:636 for LDAP over TLS,
122 and LDAP over IPC (Unix domain sockets). Host 0.0.0.0 represents
124 A space separated list of URLs is expected. The URLs should be of
125 LDAP (ldap://) or LDAP over TLS (ldaps://) or LDAP over IPC (ldapi://)
126 scheme without a DN or other optional parameters. Support for the
127 latter two schemes depends on selected configuration options. Hosts
128 may be specified by name or IPv4 and IPv6 address formats.
129 Ports, if specfied, must be numeric. The default ldap:// port is 389
130 and the default ldaps:// port is 636.
133 Specifies a chroot "jail" directory. slapd will
137 to this directory after opening listeners but before reading
138 any configuration file or initializing any backend.
142 will run slapd with the specified user name or id, and that user's
143 supplementary group access list as set with initgroups(3). The group ID
144 is also changed to this user's gid, unless the -g option is used to
149 will run with the specified group name or id.
151 Note that on some systems, running as a non-privileged user will prevent
152 passwd back-ends from accessing the encrypted passwords. Note also that
153 any shell back-ends will run as the specified non-privileged user.
157 will read the configuration file (the default if none is given with the
158 \fI\-f\fP switch) and check its syntax, without opening any listener
163 and have it fork and detach from the terminal and start serving
164 the LDAP databases defined in the default config file, just type:
174 with an alternate configuration file, and turn
175 on voluminous debugging which will be printed on standard error, type:
179 LIBEXECDIR/slapd -f /var/tmp/slapd.conf -d 255
183 To test whether the configuration file is correct or not, type:
194 .BR slapd.access (5),
197 "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)
199 See http://www.openldap.org/its/
202 is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
204 is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.