.TH SLAPO-CHAIN 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
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.SH NAME
slapo-chain \- chain overlay
.SH SYNOPSIS
ETCDIR/slapd.conf
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B chain
overlay to
.BR slapd (8)
allows automatic referral chasing.
Any time a referral is returned (except for bind operations),
it is chased by using an instance of the ldap backend.
If operations are performed with an identity (i.e. after a bind),
that identity can be asserted while chasing the referrals 
by means of the \fIidentity assertion\fP feature of back-ldap
(see
.BR slapd-ldap (5)
for details), which is essentially based on the
.B proxyAuthz
control (see \fIdraft-weltman-ldapv3-proxy\fP for details).

.LP 
The config directives that are specific to the
.B chain
overlay can be prefixed by
.BR chain\- ,
to avoid potential conflicts with directives specific to the underlying 
database or to other stacked overlays.

.LP
There are no chain overlay specific directives; however, directives 
related to the \fIldap\fP database that is implicitly instantiated 
by the overlay may assume a special meaning when used in conjunction
with this overlay.  They are described in
.BR slapd-ldap (5).
.TP
.B overlay chain
This directive adds the chain overlay to the current backend.
The chain overlay may be used with any backend, but it is mainly 
intended for use with local storage backends that may return referrals.
It is useless in conjunction with the \fIldap\fP and \fImeta\fP backends
because they already exploit the libldap specific referral chase feature.
.TP
.B chain-uri <ldapuri>
This directive instructs the underlying ldap database about which
URI to contact to chase referrals.
If not present, the referral itself is parsed, and the protocol/host/port
portions are used to establish a connection.

.LP
Directives for configuring the underlying ldap database may also 
be required, as shown here:
.LP
.RS
.nf
chain-idassert-method	"simple"
chain-idassert-authcDN	"cn=Auth,dc=example,dc=com"
chain-idassert-passwd	"secret"
chain-idassert-mode	"self"
.fi
.RE
.LP
Any valid directives for the ldap database may be used; see
.BR slapd-ldap (5)
for details.
.SH FILES
.TP
ETCDIR/slapd.conf
default slapd configuration file
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR slapd.conf (5),
.BR slapd\-ldap (5),
.BR slapd (8).
.SH AUTHOR
Originally implemented by Howard Chu.