1 .TH SLAPD-LDIF 5 "2008/07/16" "OpenLDAP 2.4.11"
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6 slapd-ldif \- LDIF backend to slapd
8 /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
12 is a basic storage backend that stores entries in text files in LDIF format,
13 and exploits the filesystem to create the tree structure of the database.
14 It is intended as a cheap, low performance easy to use backend, and it is
15 exploited by higher-level internal structures to provide a permanent
20 options apply to the LDIF backend database.
21 That is, they must follow a "database ldif" line and come before
22 any subsequent "backend" or "database" lines.
23 Other database options are described in the
28 Specify the directory where the database tree starts. The directory
29 must exist and grant appropriate permissions (rwx) to the identity slapd
34 backend does not honor any of the access control semantics described in
40 pseudo-attribute and to the other attribute values of the entries
43 operation is honored, which is performed by the frontend.
46 /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
47 default slapd configuration file