From ec9322c301dbf5f98e3a0a1ceb947de4a7f66094 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hallvard Furuseth Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:23:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Explain rootDSE --- doc/man/man5/slapd-config.5 | 8 ++++++++ doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5 | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-config.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-config.5 index f66897b059..c43bce0316 100644 --- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-config.5 +++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-config.5 @@ -682,6 +682,14 @@ if compiled with --enable-rlookups). Specify the name of an LDIF(5) file containing user defined attributes for the root DSE. These attributes are returned in addition to the attributes normally produced by slapd. + +The root DSE is an entry with information about the server and its +capabilities, in operational attributes. +It has the empty DN, and can be read with e.g.: +.ti +4 +ldapsearch -x -b "" -s base "+" +.br +See RFC 4512 section 5.1 for details. .TP .B olcSaslHost: Used to specify the fully qualified domain name used for SASL processing. diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5 index 43848deaf4..cc9703f740 100644 --- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5 +++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5 @@ -750,6 +750,14 @@ if compiled with --enable-rlookups). Specify the name of an LDIF(5) file containing user defined attributes for the root DSE. These attributes are returned in addition to the attributes normally produced by slapd. + +The root DSE is an entry with information about the server and its +capabilities, in operational attributes. +It has the empty DN, and can be read with e.g.: +.ti +4 +ldapsearch -x -b "" -s base "+" +.br +See RFC 4512 section 5.1 for details. .TP .B sasl-host Used to specify the fully qualified domain name used for SASL processing. -- 2.39.5