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NAME
slapd - Stand-alone LDAP Daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/slapd [-4|-6] [-T {acl|a[dd]|auth|c[at]| d[n]|i[ndex]|p[asswd]|s[chema]|t[est]}] [-d debug-
level] [-f slapd-config-file] [-F slapd-config-directory] [-h URLs] [-n service-name] [-s syslog-level]
[-l syslog-local-user] [-o option[=value]] [-r directory] [-u user] [-g group] [-c cookie]
DESCRIPTION
Slapd is the stand-alone LDAP daemon. It listens for LDAP connections on any number of ports (default
389), responding to the LDAP operations it receives over these connections. slapd is typically invoked
at boot time, usually out of /etc/rc.local. Upon startup, slapd normally forks and disassociates itself
from the invoking tty. If configured in the config file (or config directory), the slapd process will
print its process ID (see getpid(2)) to a .pid file, as well as the command line options during
invocation to an .args file (see slapd.conf(5)). If the -d flag is given, even with a zero argument,
slapd will not fork and disassociate from the invoking tty.
See the "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" for more details on slapd.
OPTIONS
-4 Listen on IPv4 addresses only.
-6 Listen on IPv6 addresses only.
-T tool
Run in Tool mode. The tool argument selects whether to run as slapadd, slapcat, slapdn, slapindex,
slappasswd, slapschema, or slaptest (slapacl and slapauth need the entire acl and auth option
value to be spelled out, as a is reserved to slapadd). This option should be the first option
specified when it is used; any remaining options will be interpreted by the corresponding slap
tool program, according to the respective man pages. Note that these tool programs will usually
be symbolic links to slapd. This option is provided for situations where symbolic links are not
provided or not usable.
-d debug-level
Turn on debugging as defined by debug-level. If this option is specified, even with a zero
argument, slapd will not fork or disassociate from the invoking terminal. Some general operation
and status messages are printed for any value of debug-level. debug-level is taken as a bit
string, with each bit corresponding to a different kind of debugging information. Comma-separated
arrays of friendly names can be specified to select debugging output of the corresponding
debugging information. All the names recognized by the loglevel directive described in
slapd.conf(5) are supported. If debug-level is ?, a list of installed debug-levels is printed,
and slapd exits.
Remember that if you turn on packet logging, packets containing bind passwords will be output, so
if you redirect the log to a logfile, that file should be read-protected.
-s syslog-level
This option tells slapd at what debug-level debugging statements should be logged to the syslog(8)
facility. The value syslog-level can be set to any value or combination allowed by the -d switch.
Slapd logs all messages selected by syslog-level at the syslog(3) severity debug-level DEBUG, on
the unit specified with -l.
-n service-name
Specifies the service name for logging and other purposes. Defaults to basename of argv[0], i.e.:
"slapd".
-l syslog-local-user
Selects the local user of the syslog(8) facility. Value can be LOCAL0, through LOCAL7, as well as
USER and DAEMON. The default is LOCAL4. However, this option is only permitted on systems that
support local users with the syslog(8) facility. Logging to syslog(8) occurs at the "DEBUG"
severity debug-level.
-f slapd-config-file
Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is /etc/ldap/slapd.conf.
-F slapd-config-directory
Specifies the slapd configuration directory. The default is /etc/ldap/slapd.d. If both -f and -F
are specified, the config file will be read and converted to config directory format and written
to the specified directory. If neither option is specified, slapd will attempt to read the
default config directory before trying to use the default config file. If a valid config directory
exists then the default config file is ignored. All of the slap tools that use the config options
observe this same behavior.
-h URLlist
slapd will by default serve ldap:/// (LDAP over TCP on all interfaces on default LDAP port). That
is, it will bind using INADDR_ANY and port 389. The -h option may be used to specify LDAP (and
other scheme) URLs to serve. For example, if slapd is given -h "ldap://127.0.0.1:9009/ ldaps:///
ldapi:///", it will listen on 127.0.0.1:9009 for LDAP, 0.0.0.0:636 for LDAP over TLS, and LDAP
over IPC (Unix domain sockets). Host 0.0.0.0 represents INADDR_ANY (any interface). A space
separated list of URLs is expected. The URLs should be of the LDAP, LDAPS, or LDAPI schemes, and
generally without a DN or other optional parameters (excepting as discussed below). Support for
the latter two schemes depends on selected configuration options. Hosts may be specified by name
or IPv4 and IPv6 address formats. Ports, if specified, must be numeric. The default ldap:// port
is 389 and the default ldaps:// port is 636.
For LDAP over IPC, name is the name of the socket, and no port is required, nor allowed; note that
directory separators must be URL-encoded, like any other characters that are special to URLs; so
the socket
/usr/local/var/ldapi
must be specified as
ldapi://%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fvar%2Fldapi
The default location for the IPC socket is /var/run/ldapi
The listener permissions are indicated by "x-mod=-rwxrwxrwx", "x-mod=0777" or "x-mod=777", where
any of the "rwx" can be "-" to suppress the related permission, while any of the "7" can be any
legal octal digit, according to chmod(1). The listeners can take advantage of the "x-mod"
extension to apply rough limitations to operations, e.g. allow read operations ("r", which applies
to search and compare), write operations ("w", which applies to add, delete, modify and modrdn),
and execute operations ("x", which means bind is required). "User" permissions apply to
authenticated users, while "other" apply to anonymous users; "group" permissions are ignored. For
example, "ldap:///????x-mod=-rw-------" means that read and write is only allowed for
authenticated connections, and bind is required for all operations. This feature is experimental,
and requires to be manually enabled at configure time.
-r directory
Specifies a directory to become the root directory. slapd will change the current working
directory to this directory and then chroot(2) to this directory. This is done after opening
listeners but before reading any configuration file or initializing any backend. When used as a
security mechanism, it should be used in conjunction with -u and -g options.
-u user
slapd will run slapd with the specified user name or id, and that user's supplementary group
access list as set with initgroups(3). The group ID is also changed to this user's gid, unless
the -g option is used to override. Note when used with -r, slapd will use the user database in
the change root environment.
Note that on some systems, running as a non-privileged user will prevent passwd back-ends from
accessing the encrypted passwords. Note also that any shell back-ends will run as the specified
non-privileged user.
-g group
slapd will run with the specified group name or id. Note when used with -r, slapd will use the
group database in the change root environment.
-c cookie
This option provides a cookie for the syncrepl replication consumer. The cookie is a comma
separated list of name=value pairs. Currently supported syncrepl cookie fields are rid, sid, and
csn. rid identifies a replication thread within the consumer server and is used to find the
syncrepl specification in slapd.conf(5) or slapd-config(5) having the matching replication
identifier in its definition. The rid must be provided in order for any other specified values to
be used. sid is the server id in a multi-master/mirror-mode configuration. csn is the commit
sequence number received by a previous synchronization and represents the state of the consumer
replica content which the syncrepl engine will synchronize to the current provider content. In
case of mirror-mode or multi-master replication agreement, multiple csn values, semicolon
separated, can appear. Use only the rid part to force a full reload.
-o option[=value]
This option provides a generic means to specify options without the need to reserve a separate
letter for them.
It supports the following options:
slp={on|off|slp-attrs}
When SLP support is compiled into slapd, disable it (off),
enable it by registering at SLP DAs without specific SLP attributes (on), or with specific
SLP attributes slp-attrs that must be an SLP attribute list definition according to the SLP
standard.
For example, "slp=(tree=production),(server-type=OpenLDAP),(server-version=2.4.15)"
registers at SLP DAs with the three SLP attributes tree, server-type and server-version
that have the values given above. This allows one to specifically query the SLP DAs for
LDAP servers holding the production tree in case multiple trees are available.
EXAMPLES
To start slapd and have it fork and detach from the terminal and start serving the LDAP databases defined
in the default config file, just type:
/usr/sbin/slapd
To start slapd with an alternate configuration file, and turn on voluminous debugging which will be
printed on standard error, type:
/usr/sbin/slapd -f /var/tmp/slapd.conf -d 255
To test whether the configuration file is correct or not, type:
/usr/sbin/slapd -Tt
SEE ALSO
ldap(3), slapd.conf(5), slapd-config(5), slapd.access(5), slapacl(8), slapadd(8), slapauth(8),
slapcat(8), slapdn(8), slapindex(8), slappasswd(8), slapschema(8), slaptest(8).
"OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)
BUGS
See http://www.openldap.org/its/
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OpenLDAP Software is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project <http://www.openldap.org/>.
OpenLDAP Software is derived from the University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.