.TH SLAPD.CONF 5 "5 August 1999" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
.\" $OpenLDAP$
-.\" Copyright 1998-1999 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright 1998-2000 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
.\" Copying restrictions apply. See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE.
.SH NAME
slapd.conf \- configuration file for slapd, the stand-alone LDAP daemon
.TP
.B rootpw <password>
Specify a password (or hash of the password) for the rootdn.
-This option accepts all password formats known to the server
-including \fB{SHA}\fP, \fB{MD5}\fP, \fB{CRYPT}\fP, and cleartext.
-Cleartext passwords are not recommended.
+This option accepts all RFC 2307 userPassword formats known to
+the server including \fB{SSHA}\fP, \fB{SHA}\fP, \fB{SMD5}\fP,
+\fB{MD5}\fP, \fB{CRYPT}\fP, and cleartext schemes. Cleartext
+passwords are not recommended.
.TP
.B suffix <dn suffix>
Specify the DN suffix of queries that will be passed to this
performance at the expense of data security.
.TP
.B directory <directory>
-Specify the directory where the LDBM files containing the database and
-associated indexes live. The default is
-.B /usr/tmp.
+Specify the directory where the LDBM files containing this database and
+associated indexes live. A separate directory must be specified for
+each database. The default is
+.BR LOCALSTATEDIR/openldap-ldbm .
.TP
.B
index { <attrlist> | default } [ pres,eq,approx,sub,none ]