2 .\" Copyright 1998-2005 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
3 .\" Copying restrictions apply. See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.
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]
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 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 .
128 will by default serve
130 (LDAP over TCP on all interfaces on default LDAP port). That is,
131 it will bind using INADDR_ANY and port 389.
134 option may be used to specify LDAP (and other scheme) URLs to serve.
135 For example, if slapd is given
136 .BR "\-h \(dqldap://127.0.0.1:9009/ ldaps:/// ldapi:///\(dq" ,
137 it will listen on 127.0.0.1:9009 for LDAP, 0.0.0.0:636 for LDAP over TLS,
138 and LDAP over IPC (Unix domain sockets). Host 0.0.0.0 represents
139 INADDR_ANY (any interface).
140 A space separated list of URLs is expected. The URLs should be of
141 the LDAP, LDAPS, or LDAPI schemes, and generally
142 without a DN or other optional parameters (excepting as discussed below).
143 Support for the latter two schemes depends on selected configuration
144 options. Hosts may be specified by name or IPv4 and IPv6 address formats.
145 Ports, if specified, must be numeric. The default ldap:// port is 389
146 and the default ldaps:// port is 636.
147 The socket permissions for LDAP over IPC are indicated by
148 "x-mod=-rwxrwxrwx", "x-mod=0777" or "x-mod=777", where any
149 of the "rwx" can be "-" to suppress the related permission (note,
150 however, that sockets only honor the "w" permission), while any
151 of the "7" can be any legal octal digit, according to chmod(1).
152 While LDAP over IPC requires write permissions on the socket to allow
153 any operation, the other listeners can take advantage of the "x-mod"
154 extension to apply rough limitations to users, e.g. allow read operations
155 ("r", which applies to search and compare), write operations ("w",
156 which applies to add, delete, modify and modrdn), and execute operations
157 ("x", which means bind is required).
158 "User" permissions apply to bound users, while "other" apply
162 Specifies a directory to become the root directory. slapd will
163 change the current working directory to this directory and
166 to this directory. This is done after opening listeners but before
167 reading any configuration file or initializing any backend. When
168 used as a security mechanism, it should be used in conjunction with
176 will run slapd with the specified user name or id, and that user's
177 supplementary group access list as set with initgroups(3). The group ID
178 is also changed to this user's gid, unless the -g option is used to
179 override. Note when used with
181 slapd will use the user database in the change root environment.
183 Note that on some systems, running as a non-privileged user will prevent
184 passwd back-ends from accessing the encrypted passwords. Note also that
185 any shell back-ends will run as the specified non-privileged user.
189 will run with the specified group name or id. Note when used with
191 slapd will use the group database in the change root environment.
194 This option provides a cookie for the syncrepl replication consumer.
195 The cookie is a comma separated list of name=value pairs.
196 Currently supported syncrepl cookie fields are
202 is the commit sequence number received by a previous synchronization
203 and represents the state of the consumer replica content which the
204 syncrepl engine will synchronize to the current provider content.
206 is the identity of the per-scope session log with which the
207 provider server can process this syncrepl request to reduce
208 synchronization traffic.
210 identifies a replication thread within the consumer server
211 and is used to find the syncrepl specification in
213 having the matching replication identifier in its definition.
217 and have it fork and detach from the terminal and start serving
218 the LDAP databases defined in the default config file, just type:
228 with an alternate configuration file, and turn
229 on voluminous debugging which will be printed on standard error, type:
233 LIBEXECDIR/slapd -f /var/tmp/slapd.conf -d 255
237 To test whether the configuration file is correct or not, type:
248 .BR slapd.access (5),
259 "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)
261 See http://www.openldap.org/its/
264 is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
266 is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.