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4 .TH SLAPD 8C "2008/07/16" "OpenLDAP 2.4.11"
6 slapd \- Stand-alone LDAP Daemon
10 .B [\-T {acl|add|auth|cat|dn|index|passwd|test}]
12 .B [\-f slapd\-config\-file]
13 .B [\-F slapd\-config\-directory]
15 .B [\-n service\-name] [\-s syslog\-level] [\-l syslog\-local\-user]
16 .B [\-o option[=value]]
18 .B [\-u user] [\-g group]
23 is the stand-alone LDAP daemon. It listens for LDAP connections on
24 any number of ports (default 389), responding
25 to the LDAP operations it receives over these connections.
27 is typically invoked at boot time, usually out of
31 normally forks and disassociates itself from the invoking tty.
32 If configured in the config file (or config directory),
35 process will print its process ID (see
39 file, as well as the command line options during invocation to an
45 flag is given, even with a zero argument,
47 will not fork and disassociate from the invoking tty.
49 See the "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" for more details on
54 Listen on IPv4 addresses only.
57 Listen on IPv6 addresses only.
59 .B \-T {a|c|d|i|p|t|acl|auth}
60 Run in Tool mode. The additional argument selects whether to run as
61 slapadd, slapcat, slapdn, slapindex, slappasswd, or slaptest
62 (slapacl and slapauth need the entire "\fIacl\fP" and "\fIauth\fP"
63 option value to be spelled out, as "\fIa\fP" is reserved to
65 This option should be the first option specified when it is used;
66 any remaining options will be interpreted by the corresponding
67 slap tool program, according to the respective man pages.
68 Note that these tool programs will usually be symbolic links to slapd.
69 This option is provided for situations where symbolic links
70 are not provided or not usable.
72 .BI \-d " debug\-level"
73 Turn on debugging as defined by
75 If this option is specified, even with a zero argument,
77 will not fork or disassociate from the invoking terminal. Some general
78 operation and status messages are printed for any value of \fIdebug\-level\fP.
79 \fIdebug\-level\fP is taken as a bit string, with each bit corresponding to a
80 different kind of debugging information. See <ldap_log.h> for details.
81 Comma-separated arrays of friendly names can be specified to select
82 debugging output of the corresponding debugging information.
83 All the names recognized by the \fIloglevel\fP directive
84 described in \fBslapd.conf\fP(5) are supported.
85 If \fIdebug\-level\fP is \fB?\fP, a list of installed levels is printed,
88 Remember that if you turn on packet logging, packets containing bind passwords
89 will be output, so if you redirect the log to a logfile, that file should
92 .BI \-s " syslog\-level"
95 at what level debugging statements should be logged to the
98 The value "syslog\-level" can be set to any value or combination
99 allowed by the "-d" switch.
100 Slapd logs all messages selected by "syslog\-level"
101 at the syslog(3) severity level "DEBUG",
102 on the unit specified with "-l".
104 .BI \-n " service\-name"
105 Specifies the service name for logging and other purposes. Defaults
106 to basename of argv[0], i.e.: "slapd".
108 .BI \-l " syslog\-local\-user"
109 Selects the local user of the
111 facility. Value can be
121 However, this option is only permitted on systems that support
125 Logging to syslog(8) occurs at the "DEBUG" severity level.
127 .BI \-f " slapd\-config\-file"
128 Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is
129 .BR /etc/openldap/slapd.conf .
131 .BI \-F " slapd\-config\-directory"
132 Specifies the slapd configuration directory. The default is
133 .BR /etc/openldap/slapd.d .
138 are specified, the config file will be read and converted to
139 config directory format and written to the specified directory.
140 If neither option is specified, slapd will attempt to read the
141 default config directory before trying to use the default
142 config file. If a valid config directory exists then the
143 default config file is ignored. All of the slap tools that
144 use the config options observe this same behavior.
148 will by default serve
150 (LDAP over TCP on all interfaces on default LDAP port). That is,
151 it will bind using INADDR_ANY and port 389.
154 option may be used to specify LDAP (and other scheme) URLs to serve.
155 For example, if slapd is given
156 .BR "\-h \(dqldap://127.0.0.1:9009/ ldaps:/// ldapi:///\(dq" ,
157 it will listen on 127.0.0.1:9009 for LDAP, 0.0.0.0:636 for LDAP over TLS,
158 and LDAP over IPC (Unix domain sockets). Host 0.0.0.0 represents
159 INADDR_ANY (any interface).
160 A space separated list of URLs is expected. The URLs should be of
161 the LDAP, LDAPS, or LDAPI schemes, and generally
162 without a DN or other optional parameters (excepting as discussed below).
163 Support for the latter two schemes depends on selected configuration
164 options. Hosts may be specified by name or IPv4 and IPv6 address formats.
165 Ports, if specified, must be numeric. The default ldap:// port is 389
166 and the default ldaps:// port is 636.
168 The listener permissions are indicated by
169 "x-mod=-rwxrwxrwx", "x-mod=0777" or "x-mod=777", where any
170 of the "rwx" can be "-" to suppress the related permission, while any
171 of the "7" can be any legal octal digit, according to chmod(1).
172 The listeners can take advantage of the "x-mod"
173 extension to apply rough limitations to operations, e.g. allow read operations
174 ("r", which applies to search and compare), write operations ("w",
175 which applies to add, delete, modify and modrdn), and execute operations
176 ("x", which means bind is required).
177 "User" permissions apply to authenticated users, while "other" apply
178 to anonymous users; "group" permissions are ignored.
179 For example, "ldap:///????x-mod=-rw-------" means that read and write is only allowed
180 for authenticated connections, and bind is required for all operations.
181 This feature is experimental, and requires to be manually enabled
185 Specifies a directory to become the root directory. slapd will
186 change the current working directory to this directory and
189 to this directory. This is done after opening listeners but before
190 reading any configuration file or initializing any backend. When
191 used as a security mechanism, it should be used in conjunction with
199 will run slapd with the specified user name or id, and that user's
200 supplementary group access list as set with initgroups(3). The group ID
201 is also changed to this user's gid, unless the -g option is used to
202 override. Note when used with
204 slapd will use the user database in the change root environment.
206 Note that on some systems, running as a non-privileged user will prevent
207 passwd back-ends from accessing the encrypted passwords. Note also that
208 any shell back-ends will run as the specified non-privileged user.
212 will run with the specified group name or id. Note when used with
214 slapd will use the group database in the change root environment.
217 This option provides a cookie for the syncrepl replication consumer.
218 The cookie is a comma separated list of name=value pairs.
219 Currently supported syncrepl cookie fields are
224 identifies a replication thread within the consumer server
225 and is used to find the syncrepl specification in
227 having the matching replication identifier in its definition. The
229 must be provided in order for any other specified values to be used.
231 is the commit sequence number received by a previous synchronization
232 and represents the state of the consumer replica content which the
233 syncrepl engine will synchronize to the current provider content.
235 .BI \-o " option[=value]"
236 This option provides a generic means to specify options without the need to reserve
237 a separate letter for them.
239 It supports the following options:
242 slp={\fBon\fP|\fBoff\fP|\fIslp\-attrs\fP}
243 When SLP support is compiled into slapd, disable it (
245 ), enable it by registering at SLP DAs without specific SLP attributes (
247 ), or with specific SLP attributes
249 that must be an SLP attribute list definition according to the SLP standard.
251 For example, "-o slp=(tree=production),(server-type=OpenLDAP),(server-version=2.3.20)"
252 registers at SLP DAs with the three SLP attributes tree, server-type and server-version
253 that have the values given above.
254 This allows to specifically query the SLP DAs for LDAP servers holding the
256 tree in case multiple trees are available.
261 and have it fork and detach from the terminal and start serving
262 the LDAP databases defined in the default config file, just type:
272 with an alternate configuration file, and turn
273 on voluminous debugging which will be printed on standard error, type:
277 /usr/libexec/slapd -f /var/tmp/slapd.conf -d 255
281 To test whether the configuration file is correct or not, type:
285 /usr/libexec/slapd -Tt
292 .BR slapd.access (5),
302 "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)
304 See http://www.openldap.org/its/
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