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NAME

       slapd.conf - configuration file for slapd, the stand-alone LDAP daemon

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/ldap/slapd.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The  file /etc/ldap/slapd.conf contains configuration information for the slapd(8) daemon.
       This  configuration  file  is  also  used  by  the  SLAPD  tools  slapacl(8),  slapadd(8),
       slapauth(8), slapcat(8), slapdn(8), slapindex(8), slapmodify(8), and slaptest(8).

       The  slapd.conf  file  consists  of a series of global configuration options that apply to
       slapd as a whole (including all backends), followed  by  zero  or  more  database  backend
       definitions  that  contain  information specific to a backend instance.  The configuration
       options are case-insensitive; their value, on a case by case basis, may be case-sensitive.

       The general format of slapd.conf is as follows:

           # comment - these options apply to every database
           <global configuration options>
           # first database definition & configuration options
           database <backend 1 type>
           <configuration options specific to backend 1>
           # subsequent database definitions & configuration options
           ...

       As many backend-specific sections as desired may  be  included.   Global  options  can  be
       overridden  in  a  backend (for options that appear more than once, the last appearance in
       the slapd.conf file is used).

       If a line begins with white space, it is considered a continuation of the  previous  line.
       No physical line should be over 2000 bytes long.

       Blank  lines  and  comment  lines  beginning  with  a  `#'  character  are ignored.  Note:
       continuation lines are unwrapped before comment processing is applied.

       Arguments on configuration lines are separated by white space.  If  an  argument  contains
       white  space, the argument should be enclosed in double quotes.  If an argument contains a
       double quote (`"') or a backslash character (`\'), the character should be preceded  by  a
       backslash character.

       The   specific   configuration  options  available  are  discussed  below  in  the  Global
       Configuration Options, General Backend Options, and General  Database  Options.   Backend-
       specific  options  are  discussed  in  the  slapd-<backend>(5) manual pages.  Refer to the
       "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" for more details on the slapd configuration file.

GLOBAL CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

       Options described in this section apply to all backends, unless specifically overridden in
       a  backend  definition.  Arguments  that  should  be  replaced by actual text are shown in
       brackets <>.

       access to <what> [ by <who> <access> <control> ]+
              Grant access (specified  by  <access>)  to  a  set  of  entries  and/or  attributes
              (specified by <what>) by one or more requestors (specified by <who>).  If no access
              controls are present, the  default  policy  allows  anyone  and  everyone  to  read
              anything  but  restricts  updates to rootdn.  (e.g., "access to * by * read").  The
              rootdn  can  always  read  and  write  EVERYTHING!   See  slapd.access(5)  and  the
              "OpenLDAP's Administrator's Guide" for details.

       allow <features>
              Specify  a  set  of  features  (separated  by white space) to allow (default none).
              bind_v2 allows acceptance of LDAPv2 bind requests.  Note  that  slapd(8)  does  not
              truly  implement LDAPv2 (RFC 1777), now Historic (RFC 3494).  bind_anon_cred allows
              anonymous  bind  when  credentials  are  not  empty  (e.g.   when  DN  is   empty).
              bind_anon_dn  allows  unauthenticated  (anonymous)  bind  when  DN  is  not  empty.
              update_anon allows unauthenticated (anonymous) update operations  to  be  processed
              (subject  to  access  controls  and other administrative limits).  proxy_authz_anon
              allows unauthenticated (anonymous) proxy  authorization  control  to  be  processed
              (subject to access controls, authorization and other administrative limits).

       argsfile <filename>
              The  (absolute)  name  of  a  file  that  will hold the slapd server's command line
              (program name and options).

       attributeoptions [option-name]...
              Define tagging attribute options or option tag/range prefixes.   Options  must  not
              end  with  `-',  prefixes must end with `-'.  The `lang-' prefix is predefined.  If
              you use the attributeoptions directive, `lang-' will no longer be defined  and  you
              must specify it explicitly if you want it defined.

              An  attribute  description  with  a  tagging  option is a subtype of that attribute
              description without the option.  Except for that, options defined this way have  no
              special  semantics.   Prefixes defined this way work like the `lang-' options: They
              define a prefix for tagging options starting with the  prefix.   That  is,  if  you
              define  the prefix `x-foo-', you can use the option `x-foo-bar'.  Furthermore, in a
              search or compare, a prefix or range name (with a trailing `-') matches all options
              starting  with  that  name,  as  well  as  the  option with the range name sans the
              trailing `-'.  That is, `x-foo-bar-' matches `x-foo-bar' and `x-foo-bar-baz'.

              RFC 4520 reserves options beginning  with  `x-'  for  private  experiments.   Other
              options  should  be  registered with IANA, see RFC 4520 section 3.5.  OpenLDAP also
              has the `binary' option built in, but this is a  transfer  option,  not  a  tagging
              option.

       attributetype    ( <oid>   [NAME <name>]   [DESC <description>]   [OBSOLETE]   [SUP <oid>]
              [EQUALITY <oid>] [ORDERING <oid>] [SUBSTR <oid>]  [SYNTAX <oidlen>]  [SINGLE-VALUE]
              [COLLECTIVE] [NO-USER-MODIFICATION] [USAGE <attributeUsage>] )
              Specify  an  attribute type using the LDAPv3 syntax defined in RFC 4512.  The slapd
              parser extends the RFC 4512 definition by allowing string forms as well as  numeric
              OIDs  to  be  used  for  the  attribute  OID  and  attribute  syntax OID.  (See the
              objectidentifier description.)

       authid-rewrite<cmd> <args>
              Used by the authentication framework to convert simple user names  to  an  LDAP  DN
              used  for authorization purposes.  Its purpose is analogous to that of authz-regexp
              (see below).  The prefix authid- is followed by a set of rules analogous  to  those
              described  in  slapo-rwm(5)  for  data  rewriting  (replace  the  rwm-  prefix with
              authid-).  authid-rewrite<cmd> and authz-regexp rules should not be intermixed.

       authz-policy <policy>
              Used to specify which rules to use for Proxy  Authorization.   Proxy  authorization
              allows  a  client  to  authenticate to the server using one user's credentials, but
              specify a different identity to use for authorization and access control  purposes.
              It essentially allows user A to login as user B, using user A's password.  The none
              flag disables proxy authorization. This is the default setting.  The from flag will
              use rules in the authzFrom attribute of the authorization DN.  The to flag will use
              rules in the authzTo attribute of the authentication DN.  The any  flag,  an  alias
              for  the  deprecated  value of both, will allow any of the above, whatever succeeds
              first (checked in to, from sequence.  The all flag requires both authorizations  to
              succeed.

              The  rules  are mechanisms to specify which identities are allowed to perform proxy
              authorization.  The authzFrom attribute in an entry specifies which other users are
              allowed  to  proxy login to this entry. The authzTo attribute in an entry specifies
              which other users this user can authorize as.  Use of authzTo rules can  be  easily
              abused  if  users  are  allowed  to  write  arbitrary values to this attribute.  In
              general the authzTo attribute must be protected with ACLs such that only privileged
              users can modify it.  The value of authzFrom and authzTo describes an identity or a
              set of identities; it can take five forms:

                     ldap:///<base>??[<scope>]?<filter>
                     dn[.<dnstyle>]:<pattern>
                     u[.<mech>[/<realm>]]:<pattern>
                     group[/objectClass[/attributeType]]:<pattern>
                     <pattern>

                     <dnstyle>:={exact|onelevel|children|subtree|regex}

              The first form is a valid LDAP URI where the <host>:<port>,  the  <attrs>  and  the
              <extensions>  portions  must be absent, so that the search occurs locally on either
              authzFrom or authzTo.

              The second form is a DN.  The optional dnstyle modifiers exact, onelevel, children,
              and  subtree  provide  exact,  onelevel,  children and subtree matches, which cause
              <pattern> to be normalized according to the DN normalization  rules.   The  special
              dnstyle modifier regex causes the <pattern> to be treated as a POSIX (''extended'')
              regular expression, as discussed in regex(7) and/or re_format(7).  A pattern  of  *
              means any non-anonymous DN.

              The  third  form  is  a  SASL  id.   The  optional  fields <mech> and <realm> allow
              specification of  a  SASL  mechanism,  and  eventually  a  SASL  realm,  for  those
              mechanisms that support one.  The need to allow the specification of a mechanism is
              still debated, and users are strongly discouraged to rely on this possibility.

              The fourth form is a group  specification.   It  consists  of  the  keyword  group,
              optionally   followed   by   the   specification   of  the  group  objectClass  and
              attributeType.   The  objectClass  defaults  to  groupOfNames.   The  attributeType
              defaults  to  member.   The  group  with  DN <pattern> is searched with base scope,
              filtered on the specified objectClass.  The values of the  resulting  attributeType
              are searched for the asserted DN.

              The  fifth  form  is  provided for backwards compatibility.  If no identity type is
              provided, i.e. only <pattern> is present, an exact DN is assumed; as a consequence,
              <pattern> is subjected to DN normalization.

              Since  the  interpretation  of authzFrom and authzTo can impact security, users are
              strongly encouraged to explicitly set the type of identity  specification  that  is
              being  used.   A subset of these rules can be used as third arg in the authz-regexp
              statement (see below); significantly, the URI, provided it results in  exactly  one
              entry, and the dn.exact:<dn> forms.

       authz-regexp <match> <replace>
              Used by the authentication framework to convert simple user names, such as provided
              by SASL subsystem, or extracted  from  certificates  in  case  of  cert-based  SASL
              EXTERNAL,  or  provided  within the RFC 4370 "proxied authorization" control, to an
              LDAP DN used for authorization purposes.  Note that the resulting DN need not refer
              to  an  existing  entry  to  be considered valid.  When an authorization request is
              received from the SASL subsystem, the  SASL  USERNAME,  REALM,  and  MECHANISM  are
              taken, when available, and combined into a name of the form

                     UID=<username>[[,CN=<realm>],CN=<mechanism>],CN=auth

              This  name  is  then  compared  against  the  match  POSIX  (''extended'')  regular
              expression, and if the match is successful, the name is replaced with  the  replace
              string.   If  there  are  wildcard strings in the match regular expression that are
              enclosed in parenthesis, e.g.

                     UID=([^,]*),CN=.*

              then the portion of the name that matched  the  wildcard  will  be  stored  in  the
              numbered   placeholder  variable  $1.  If  there  are  other  wildcard  strings  in
              parenthesis, the  matching  strings  will  be  in  $2,  $3,  etc.  up  to  $9.  The
              placeholders can then be used in the replace string, e.g.

                     UID=$1,OU=Accounts,DC=example,DC=com

              The  replaced  name can be either a DN, i.e. a string prefixed by "dn:", or an LDAP
              URI.  If the latter, the server will use the URI to search its own database(s) and,
              if  the  search  returns  exactly one entry, the name is replaced by the DN of that
              entry.   The LDAP URI must have no hostport, attrs, or extensions  components,  but
              the filter is mandatory, e.g.

                     ldap:///OU=Accounts,DC=example,DC=com??one?(UID=$1)

              The  protocol  portion  of the URI must be strictly ldap.  Note that this search is
              subject to access controls.  Specifically, the authentication  identity  must  have
              "auth" access in the subject.

              Multiple  authz-regexp  options can be given in the configuration file to allow for
              multiple matching and replacement patterns. The matching patterns  are  checked  in
              the order they appear in the file, stopping at the first successful match.

       concurrency <integer>
              Specify  a  desired level of concurrency.  Provided to the underlying thread system
              as a hint.  The default is not to provide any hint. This setting is only meaningful
              on  some  platforms  where  there  is  not a one to one correspondence between user
              threads and kernel threads.

       conn_max_pending <integer>
              Specify the maximum number of  pending  requests  for  an  anonymous  session.   If
              requests are submitted faster than the server can process them, they will be queued
              up to this limit. If the limit is exceeded, the session is closed. The  default  is
              100.

       conn_max_pending_auth <integer>
              Specify  the  maximum number of pending requests for an authenticated session.  The
              default is 1000.

       defaultsearchbase <dn>
              Specify a default search base to use when client submits a non-base search  request
              with  an  empty base DN.  Base scoped search requests with an empty base DN are not
              affected.

       disallow <features>
              Specify a set of features (separated by white space) to  disallow  (default  none).
              bind_anon  disables  acceptance of anonymous bind requests.  Note that this setting
              does not prohibit anonymous directory access (See  "require  authc").   bind_simple
              disables  simple  (bind)  authentication.   tls_2_anon  disables forcing session to
              anonymous status (see also tls_authc) upon StartTLS operation  receipt.   tls_authc
              disallows   the   StartTLS   operation  if  authenticated  (see  also  tls_2_anon).
              proxy_authz_non_critical disables acceptance of the proxied  authorization  control
              (RFC4370)   with  criticality  set  to  FALSE.   dontusecopy_non_critical  disables
              acceptance of the dontUseCopy control (a work in progress) with criticality set  to
              FALSE.

       ditcontentrule   ( <oid>   [NAME <name>]   [DESC <description>]   [OBSOLETE]  [AUX <oids>]
              [MUST <oids>] [MAY <oids>] [NOT <oids>] )
              Specify an DIT Content Rule using the LDAPv3 syntax defined in RFC 4512.  The slapd
              parser  extends the RFC 4512 definition by allowing string forms as well as numeric
              OIDs to be used  for  the  attribute  OID  and  attribute  syntax  OID.   (See  the
              objectidentifier description.)

       gentlehup { on | off }
              A  SIGHUP  signal  will  only  cause  a  'gentle' shutdown-attempt: Slapd will stop
              listening for new connections, but will not close the connections  to  the  current
              clients.   Future  write  operations  return  unwilling-to-perform,  though.  Slapd
              terminates when all clients have closed their connections (if they ever do),  or  -
              as  before  -  if  it receives a SIGTERM signal.  This can be useful if you wish to
              terminate the server and start a new slapd server with  another  database,  without
              disrupting  the currently active clients.  The default is off.  You may wish to use
              idletimeout along with this option.

       idletimeout <integer>
              Specify the number of seconds to  wait  before  forcibly  closing  an  idle  client
              connection.   A setting of 0 disables this feature.  The default is 0. You may also
              want to set the writetimeout option.

       include <filename>
              Read additional configuration information from the  given  file  before  continuing
              with the next line of the current file.

       index_hash64 { on | off }
              Use  a 64 bit hash for indexing. The default is to use 32 bit hashes.  These hashes
              are used for equality and substring indexing. The 64 bit version may be  needed  to
              avoid index collisions when the number of indexed values exceeds ~64 million. (Note
              that substring indexing  generates  multiple  index  values  per  actual  attribute
              value.)   Indices  generated  with  32  bit hashes are incompatible with the 64 bit
              version, and vice versa.  Any  existing  databases  must  be  fully  reloaded  when
              changing this setting. This directive is only supported on 64 bit CPUs.

       index_intlen <integer>
              Specify  the  key length for ordered integer indices. The most significant bytes of
              the binary integer will be used for index keys.  The  default  value  is  4,  which
              provides exact indexing for 31 bit values.  A floating point representation is used
              to index too large values.

       index_substr_if_maxlen <integer>
              Specify the maximum length for subinitial and  subfinal  indices.  Only  this  many
              characters  of  an attribute value will be processed by the indexing functions; any
              excess characters are ignored. The default is 4.

       index_substr_if_minlen <integer>
              Specify the minimum length for subinitial and subfinal indices. An attribute  value
              must  have  at  least this many characters in order to be processed by the indexing
              functions. The default is 2.

       index_substr_any_len <integer>
              Specify the length used for subany indices. An attribute value must have  at  least
              this  many  characters  in order to be processed. Attribute values longer than this
              length will be processed in segments of this length. The default is 4.  The  subany
              index  will  also  be used in subinitial and subfinal index lookups when the filter
              string is longer than the index_substr_if_maxlen value.

       index_substr_any_step <integer>
              Specify the steps used in subany index lookups. This value sets the offset for  the
              segments  of  a  filter  string  that  are processed for a subany index lookup. The
              default is 2. For example, with the default values,  a  search  using  this  filter
              "cn=*abcdefgh*" would generate index lookups for "abcd", "cdef", and "efgh".

       Note:  Indexing  support  depends  on  the particular backend in use. Also, changing these
       settings will generally require deleting any indices that depend on these  parameters  and
       recreating them with slapindex(8).

       ldapsyntax ( <oid> [DESC <description>] [X-SUBST <substitute-syntax>] )
              Specify  an  LDAP  syntax  using  the LDAPv3 syntax defined in RFC 4512.  The slapd
              parser extends the RFC 4512 definition by allowing string forms as well as  numeric
              OIDs  to  be used for the syntax OID.  (See the objectidentifier description.)  The
              slapd parser also honors the X-SUBST extension  (an  OpenLDAP-specific  extension),
              which allows one to use the ldapsyntax statement to define a non-implemented syntax
              along with another syntax, the extension value substitute-syntax, as its  temporary
              replacement.   The  substitute-syntax  must  be defined.  This allows one to define
              attribute types that make use of non-implemented syntaxes using the correct  syntax
              OID.   Unless  X-SUBST  is  used,  this  configuration statement would result in an
              error, since no handlers would be associated to the resulting syntax structure.

       listener-threads <integer>
              Specify the number of threads to use for the connection manager.  The default is  1
              and  this is typically adequate for up to 16 CPU cores.  The value should be set to
              a power of 2.

       localSSF <SSF>
              Specifies the Security Strength Factor (SSF) to be given local LDAP sessions,  such
              as  those  to  the  ldapi://  listener.  For a description of SSF values, see sasl-
              secprops's minssf option description.  The default is 71.

       logfile <filename>
              Specify a file for recording slapd debug messages. These messages are unrelated  to
              messages exposed by the loglevel configuration parameter. This setting only affects
              the slapd daemon and has no effect on the command  line  tools.  By  default  these
              messages  only  go  to  stderr  and  are  not recorded anywhere else.  Specifying a
              logfile copies messages to both stderr and the logfile.

       logfile-format debug | syslog-utc | syslog-localtime
              Specify the prefix format for messages written to the logfile. The debug format  is
              the  normal  format used for slapd debug messages, with a timestamp in hexadecimal,
              followed by a thread ID.  The other options are to use  syslog(3)  style  prefixes,
              with  timestamps  either  in  UTC  or  in  the local timezone. The default is debug
              format.

       logfile-only on | off
              Specify that debug messages should only go to the configured logfile,  and  not  to
              stderr.

       logfile-rotate <max> <Mbytes> <hours>
              Specify  automatic rotation for the configured logfile as the maximum number of old
              logfiles to retain, a maximum size in megabytes to allow a logfile to  grow  before
              rotation,  and a maximum age in hours for a logfile to be used before rotation. The
              maximum number must be in the range 1-99.  Setting Mbytes or hours to zero disables
              the  size or age check, respectively.  At least one of Mbytes or hours must be non-
              zero. By default no automatic rotation will be performed.

       loglevel <integer> [...]
              Specify the level at which debugging statements and operation statistics should  be
              syslogged  (currently  logged to the syslogd(8) LOG_LOCAL4 facility).  They must be
              considered subsystems rather than increasingly verbose log levels.   Some  messages
              with  higher  priority  are logged regardless of the configured loglevel as soon as
              any logging is configured.  Log levels are additive, and available levels are:
                     1      (0x1 trace) trace function calls
                     2      (0x2 packets) debug packet handling
                     4      (0x4 args) heavy trace debugging (function args)
                     8      (0x8 conns) connection management
                     16     (0x10 BER) print out packets sent and received
                     32     (0x20 filter) search filter processing
                     64     (0x40 config) configuration file processing
                     128    (0x80 ACL) access control list processing
                     256    (0x100 stats) connections, LDAP operations, results (recommended)
                     512    (0x200 stats2) stats2 log entries sent
                     1024   (0x400 shell) print communication with shell backends
                     2048   (0x800 parse) entry parsing

                     16384  (0x4000 sync) LDAPSync replication
                     32768  (0x8000 none) only messages that get logged whatever log level is set
              The desired log level can be input as a single integer  that  combines  the  (ORed)
              desired  levels,  both in decimal or in hexadecimal notation, as a list of integers
              (that are ORed internally), or as a list  of  the  names  that  are  shown  between
              parentheses, such that

                  loglevel 129
                  loglevel 0x81
                  loglevel 128 1
                  loglevel 0x80 0x1
                  loglevel acl trace

              are equivalent.  The keyword any can be used as a shortcut to enable logging at all
              levels  (equivalent  to  -1).   The  keyword  none,  or  the   equivalent   integer
              representation,  causes those messages that are logged regardless of the configured
              loglevel to be logged.  In fact, if loglevel is set to 0, no logging occurs, so  at
              least the none level is required to have high priority messages logged.

              Note  that the packets, BER, and parse levels are only available as debug output on
              stderr, and are not sent to syslog.

              The loglevel defaults to stats.  This level should usually also  be  included  when
              using other loglevels, to help analyze the logs.

       maxfilterdepth <integer>
              Specify  the  maximum  depth  of nested filters in search requests.  The default is
              1000.

       moduleload <filename> [<arguments>...]
              Specify the name of a dynamically  loadable  module  to  load  and  any  additional
              arguments  if supported by the module. The filename may be an absolute path name or
              a simple filename. Non-absolute names are searched for in the directories specified
              by  the modulepath option. This option and the modulepath option are only usable if
              slapd was compiled with --enable-modules.

       modulepath <pathspec>
              Specify a list of directories to search for loadable modules. Typically the path is
              colon-separated  but  this  depends  on  the  operating  system.   The  default  is
              /usr/lib/ldap, which is where the standard OpenLDAP install will place its modules.

       objectclass ( <oid> [NAME <name>] [DESC <description>] [OBSOLETE] [SUP <oids>] [{ ABSTRACT
              | STRUCTURAL | AUXILIARY }] [MUST <oids>] [MAY <oids>] )
              Specify  an  objectclass  using  the  LDAPv3 syntax defined in RFC 4512.  The slapd
              parser extends the RFC 4512 definition by allowing string forms as well as  numeric
              OIDs  to be used for the object class OID.  (See the objectidentifier description.)
              Object classes are "STRUCTURAL" by default.

       objectidentifier <name> { <oid> | <name>[:<suffix>] }
              Define a string name that equates to the given OID. The string can be used in place
              of  the  numeric OID in objectclass and attribute definitions. The name can also be
              used with a suffix of the form ":xx" in which case the value "oid.xx" will be used.

       password-hash <hash> [<hash>...]
              This option configures one or  more  hashes  to  be  used  in  generation  of  user
              passwords  stored  in the userPassword attribute during processing of LDAP Password
              Modify Extended Operations (RFC 3062).  The <hash> must be one  of  {SSHA},  {SHA},
              {SMD5}, {MD5}, {CRYPT}, and {CLEARTEXT}.  The default is {SSHA}.

              {SHA} and {SSHA} use the SHA-1 algorithm (FIPS 160-1), the latter with a seed.

              {MD5} and {SMD5} use the MD5 algorithm (RFC 1321), the latter with a seed.

              {CRYPT} uses the crypt(3).

              {CLEARTEXT}  indicates  that  the  new  password should be added to userPassword as
              clear text.

              Note that this option does not alter  the  normal  user  applications  handling  of
              userPassword during LDAP Add, Modify, or other LDAP operations.

       password-crypt-salt-format <format>
              Specify the format of the salt passed to crypt(3) when generating {CRYPT} passwords
              (see password-hash) during processing of LDAP Password Modify  Extended  Operations
              (RFC 3062).

              This  string needs to be in sprintf(3) format and may include one (and only one) %s
              conversion.  This conversion will be substituted with a string of random characters
              from  [A-Za-z0-9./].   For  example,  "%.2s"  provides  a  two  character  salt and
              "$1$%.8s" tells some versions of crypt(3) to use an MD5 algorithm  and  provides  8
              random  characters  of  salt.  The default is "%s", which provides 31 characters of
              salt.

       pidfile <filename>
              The (absolute) name of a file that will hold the slapd  server's  process  ID  (see
              getpid(2)).

       pluginlog: <filename>
              The  ( absolute ) name of a file that will contain log messages from SLAPI plugins.
              See slapd.plugin(5) for details.

       referral <url>
              Specify the referral to pass back when slapd(8) cannot find  a  local  database  to
              handle a request.  If specified multiple times, each url is provided.

       require <conditions>
              Specify  a  set of conditions (separated by white space) to require (default none).
              The directive may be specified  globally  and/or  per-database;  databases  inherit
              global conditions, so per-database specifications are additive.  bind requires bind
              operation prior to directory operations.  LDAPv3 requires session to be using  LDAP
              version  3.   authc  requires  authentication  prior to directory operations.  SASL
              requires SASL authentication prior to directory operations.  strong requires strong
              authentication  prior to directory operations.  The strong keyword allows protected
              "simple" authentication as well as  SASL  authentication.   none  may  be  used  to
              require  no  conditions  (useful  to  clear  out  globally  set conditions within a
              particular database); it must occur first in the list of conditions.

       reverse-lookup on | off
              Enable/disable client name unverified reverse lookup (default is  off  if  compiled
              with --enable-rlookups).

       rootDSE <file>
              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.:
                  ldapsearch -x -b "" -s base "+"
              See RFC 4512 section 5.1 for details.

       sasl-auxprops <plugin> [...]
              Specify which auxprop plugins to use for authentication  lookups.  The  default  is
              empty,  which  just uses slapd's internal support. Usually no other auxprop plugins
              are needed.

       sasl-auxprops-dontusecopy <attr> [...]
              Specify which attribute(s) should be subject to the don't use copy control. This is
              necessary for some SASL mechanisms such as OTP to work in a replicated environment.
              The attribute "cmusaslsecretOTP" is the default value.

       sasl-auxprops-dontusecopy-ignore on | off
              Used  to  disable  replication  of  the  attribute(s)  defined  by   sasl-auxprops-
              dontusecopy  and  instead use a local value for the attribute. This allows the SASL
              mechanism to  continue  to  work  if  the  provider  is  offline.  This  can  cause
              replication inconsistency. Defaults to off.

       sasl-host <fqdn>
              Used to specify the fully qualified domain name used for SASL processing.

       sasl-realm <realm>
              Specify SASL realm.  Default is empty.

       sasl-cbinding none | tls-unique | tls-endpoint
              Specify  the  channel-binding  type, see also LDAP_OPT_X_SASL_CBINDING.  Default is
              none.

       sasl-secprops <properties>
              Used to specify Cyrus SASL security properties.  The none flag (without  any  other
              properties)  causes  the  flag  properties  default,  "noanonymous,noplain",  to be
              cleared.  The noplain  flag  disables  mechanisms  susceptible  to  simple  passive
              attacks.  The noactive flag disables mechanisms susceptible to active attacks.  The
              nodict flag disables mechanisms susceptible to  passive  dictionary  attacks.   The
              noanonymous flag disables mechanisms which support anonymous login.  The forwardsec
              flag require forward secrecy between sessions.   The  passcred  require  mechanisms
              which  pass  client credentials (and allow mechanisms which can pass credentials to
              do so).  The minssf=<factor> property specifies  the  minimum  acceptable  security
              strength  factor  as  an  integer  approximate  to  effective  key  length used for
              encryption.  0 (zero) implies no protection, 1 implies integrity  protection  only,
              128  allows  RC4,  Blowfish  and  other  similar  ciphers,  256 will require modern
              ciphers.  The default is 0.  The maxssf=<factor>  property  specifies  the  maximum
              acceptable  security  strength  factor as an integer (see minssf description).  The
              default is INT_MAX.  The maxbufsize=<size> property specifies the maximum  security
              layer  receive  buffer  size  allowed.  0 disables security layers.  The default is
              65536.

       schemadn <dn>
              Specify the distinguished name for the subschema subentry that controls the entries
              on this server.  The default is "cn=Subschema".

       security <factors>
              Specify  a  set  of security strength factors (separated by white space) to require
              (see sasl-secprops's minssf option for a description of security strength factors).
              The directive may be specified globally and/or per-database.  ssf=<n> specifies the
              overall security strength factor.  transport=<n> specifies the  transport  security
              strength  factor.   tls=<n>  specifies  the TLS security strength factor.  sasl=<n>
              specifies the SASL security strength factor.  update_ssf=<n> specifies the  overall
              security  strength  factor  to require for directory updates.  update_transport=<n>
              specifies the transport security strength factor to require for directory  updates.
              update_tls=<n>  specifies the TLS security strength factor to require for directory
              updates.  update_sasl=<n> specifies the SASL security strength  factor  to  require
              for  directory  updates.   simple_bind=<n>  specifies  the security strength factor
              required for simple username/password  authentication.   Note  that  the  transport
              factor  is  measure of security provided by the underlying transport, e.g. ldapi://
              (and eventually IPSEC).  It is not normally used.

       serverID <integer> [<URL>]
              Specify an integer ID from 0 to 4095 for this server. The ID may also be  specified
              as  a  hexadecimal  ID by prefixing the value with "0x".  Non-zero IDs are required
              when using multi-provider replication and each provider must have a unique non-zero
              ID. Note that this requirement also applies to separate providers contributing to a
              glued set of databases.  If the URL is provided, this directive  may  be  specified
              multiple  times,  providing a complete list of participating servers and their IDs.
              The fully qualified hostname of each server should be used in  the  supplied  URLs.
              The  IDs  are used in the "replica id" field of all CSNs generated by the specified
              server. The default value  is  zero,  which  is  only  valid  for  single  provider
              replication.  Example:

            serverID 1 ldap://ldap1.example.com
            serverID 2 ldap://ldap2.example.com

       sizelimit {<integer>|unlimited}

       sizelimit size[.{soft|hard}]=<integer> [...]
              Specify  the  maximum  number  of  entries  to return from a search operation.  The
              default size limit is 500.  Use unlimited to specify no limits.  The second  format
              allows  a  fine  grain  setting  of  the size limits.  If no special qualifiers are
              specified, both soft and hard limits are set.  Extra args can be added on the  same
              line.  Additional qualifiers are available; see limits for an explanation of all of
              the different flags.

       sockbuf_max_incoming <integer>
              Specify the maximum incoming LDAP PDU size for anonymous sessions.  The default  is
              262143.

       sockbuf_max_incoming_auth <integer>
              Specify the maximum incoming LDAP PDU size for authenticated sessions.  The default
              is 4194303.

       sortvals <attr> [...]
              Specify a list of multi-valued attributes whose values will always be maintained in
              sorted  order. Using this option will allow Modify, Compare, and filter evaluations
              on these attributes to be performed more  efficiently.  The  resulting  sort  order
              depends  on  the  attributes'  syntax  and matching rules and may not correspond to
              lexical order or any other recognizable order.

       tcp-buffer [listener=<URL>] [{read|write}=]<size>
              Specify the size of the TCP buffer.  A global value for both  read  and  write  TCP
              buffers  related  to  any  listener  is  defined, unless the listener is explicitly
              specified, or either the read  or  write  qualifiers  are  used.   See  tcp(7)  for
              details.  Note that some OS-es implement automatic TCP buffer tuning.

       threads <integer>
              Specify  the  maximum  size  of  the  primary  thread pool.  The default is 16; the
              minimum value is 2.

       threadqueues <integer>
              Specify the number of work queues to use for the primary thread pool.  The  default
              is  1  and  this is typically adequate for up to 8 CPU cores.  The value should not
              exceed the number of CPUs in the system.

       timelimit {<integer>|unlimited}

       timelimit time[.{soft|hard}]=<integer> [...]
              Specify the maximum number of seconds (in real time) slapd will spend  answering  a
              search  request.   The  default  time  limit  is 3600.  Use unlimited to specify no
              limits.  The second format allows a fine grain setting of the time  limits.   Extra
              args can be added on the same line.  See limits for an explanation of the different
              flags.

       tool-threads <integer>
              Specify the maximum number of threads to use in tool  mode.   This  should  not  be
              greater than the number of CPUs in the system.  The default is 1.

       writetimeout <integer>
              Specify  the number of seconds to wait before forcibly closing a connection with an
              outstanding write. This allows recovery from various network  hang  conditions.   A
              writetimeout of 0 disables this feature.  The default is 0.

TLS OPTIONS

       If  slapd  is  built with support for Transport Layer Security, there are more options you
       can specify.

       TLSCipherSuite <cipher-suite-spec>
              Permits configuring what  ciphers  will  be  accepted  and  the  preference  order.
              <cipher-suite-spec>  should  be  a  cipher specification for the TLS library in use
              (OpenSSL or GnuTLS).  Example:

                     OpenSSL:
                            TLSCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:+SSLv2

                     GnuTLS:
                            TLSCiphersuite SECURE256:!AES-128-CBC

              To check what ciphers a given spec selects in OpenSSL, use:

                   openssl ciphers -v <cipher-suite-spec>

              With GnuTLS the available specs can be found in the manual  page  of  gnutls-cli(1)
              (see the description of the option --priority).

              In  older  versions  of  GnuTLS,  where  gnutls-cli  does  not  support  the option
              --priority, you can obtain the — more limited — list of ciphers by calling:

                   gnutls-cli -l

       TLSCACertificateFile <filename>
              Specifies  the  file  that  contains  certificates  for  all  of  the   Certificate
              Authorities  that slapd will recognize.  The certificate for the CA that signed the
              server certificate must(GnuTLS)/may(OpenSSL) be included among these  certificates.
              If  the  signing  CA  was  not  a  top-level (root) CA, certificates for the entire
              sequence of CA's from the signing  CA  to  the  top-level  CA  should  be  present.
              Multiple   certificates  are  simply  appended  to  the  file;  the  order  is  not
              significant.

       TLSCACertificatePath <path>
              Specifies the path of directories that contain Certificate  Authority  certificates
              in  separate individual files. Usually only one of this or the TLSCACertificateFile
              is used. If both are specified, both locations will be used.  Multiple  directories
              may be specified, separated by a semi-colon.

       TLSCertificateFile <filename>
              Specifies the file that contains the slapd server certificate.

              When  using  OpenSSL  that  file  may  also  contain  any  number  of  intermediate
              certificates after the server certificate.

       TLSCertificateKeyFile <filename>
              Specifies the file that contains the slapd server  private  key  that  matches  the
              certificate stored in the TLSCertificateFile file.  Currently, the private key must
              not be protected with a password, so it  is  of  critical  importance  that  it  is
              protected carefully.

       TLSDHParamFile <filename>
              This  directive  specifies  the  file  that  contains parameters for Diffie-Hellman
              ephemeral key exchange.  This is required in order to use a DSA certificate on  the
              server,  or an RSA certificate missing the "key encipherment" key usage.  Note that
              setting this option may also  enable  Anonymous  Diffie-Hellman  key  exchanges  in
              certain  non-default  cipher  suites.   Anonymous key exchanges should generally be
              avoided since they provide no actual client or server authentication and provide no
              protection  against  man-in-the-middle  attacks.   You should append "!ADH" to your
              cipher suites to ensure that these suites are not used.

       TLSECName <name>
              Specify the name of the curve(s) to use for Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman ephemeral
              key  exchange.  This option is only used for OpenSSL.  This option is not used with
              GnuTLS; the curves may be chosen in the GnuTLS ciphersuite specification.

       TLSProtocolMin <major>[.<minor>]
              Specifies minimum SSL/TLS protocol version that will be negotiated.  If the  server
              doesn't support at least that version, the SSL handshake will fail.  To require TLS
              1.x or higher, set this option to 3.(x+1), e.g.,

                   TLSProtocolMin 3.2

              would require TLS 1.1.  Specifying a minimum that is higher than that supported  by
              the  OpenLDAP  implementation will result in it requiring the highest level that it
              does support.  This directive is ignored with GnuTLS.

       TLSRandFile <filename>
              Specifies the file to obtain random bits from when /dev/[u]random is not available.
              Generally  set  to  the  name  of  the  EGD/PRNGD socket.  The environment variable
              RANDFILE can also be used to specify the filename.  This directive is ignored  with
              GnuTLS.

       TLSVerifyClient <level>
              Specifies what checks to perform on client certificates in an incoming TLS session,
              if any.  The <level> can be specified as one of the following keywords:

              never  This is the default.  slapd will not ask the client for a certificate.

              allow  The client certificate is requested.  If no  certificate  is  provided,  the
                     session  proceeds  normally.   If  a bad certificate is provided, it will be
                     ignored and the session proceeds normally.

              try    The client certificate is requested.  If no  certificate  is  provided,  the
                     session proceeds normally.  If a bad certificate is provided, the session is
                     immediately terminated.

              demand | hard | true
                     These keywords are all equivalent, for compatibility  reasons.   The  client
                     certificate  is  requested.   If  no  certificate  is  provided,  or  a  bad
                     certificate is provided, the session is immediately terminated.

                     Note that a valid client certificate is required in order to  use  the  SASL
                     EXTERNAL  authentication  mechanism  with  a  TLS  session.  As such, a non-
                     default TLSVerifyClient setting must  be  chosen  to  enable  SASL  EXTERNAL
                     authentication.

       TLSCRLCheck <level>
              Specifies  if  the  Certificate  Revocation  List (CRL) of the CA should be used to
              verify  if  the  client  certificates  have  not  been   revoked.   This   requires
              TLSCACertificatePath  parameter  to  be set. This directive is ignored with GnuTLS.
              <level> can be specified as one of the following keywords:

              none   No CRL checks are performed

              peer   Check the CRL of the peer certificate

              all    Check the CRL for a whole certificate chain

       TLSCRLFile <filename>
              Specifies a file containing a Certificate Revocation List to be used for  verifying
              that  certificates  have  not been revoked. This directive is only valid when using
              GnuTLS.

GENERAL BACKEND OPTIONS

       Options in this section only apply to the configuration file section of all  instances  of
       the specified backend.  All backends may support this class of options, but currently only
       back-mdb does.

       backend <databasetype>
              Mark the beginning of  a  backend  definition.  <databasetype>  should  be  one  of
              asyncmeta,  config,  dnssrv,  ldap,  ldif,  mdb, meta, monitor, null, passwd, perl,
              relay, sock, sql, or wt.  At present, only back-mdb implements any options of  this
              type, so this setting is not needed for any other backends.

GENERAL DATABASE OPTIONS

       Options  in  this section only apply to the configuration file section for the database in
       which they are defined.  They are supported by every  type  of  backend.   Note  that  the
       database and at least one suffix option are mandatory for each database.

       database <databasetype>
              Mark  the beginning of a new database instance definition. <databasetype> should be
              one of asyncmeta, config, dnssrv, ldap, ldif, mdb,  meta,  monitor,  null,  passwd,
              perl, relay, sock, sql, or wt, depending on which backend will serve the database.

              LDAP  operations,  even  subtree searches, normally access only one database.  That
              can be changed by gluing databases together with the subordinate  keyword.   Access
              controls and some overlays can also involve multiple databases.

       add_content_acl on | off
              Controls whether Add operations will perform ACL checks on the content of the entry
              being added. This check is off by default. See the slapd.access(5) manual page  for
              more details on ACL requirements for Add operations.

       extra_attrs <attrlist>
              Lists  what attributes need to be added to search requests.  Local storage backends
              return the entire entry to the frontend.  The frontend takes care of only returning
              the  requested  attributes that are allowed by ACLs.  However, features like access
              checking and so may need specific attributes that are not automatically returned by
              remote  storage  backends,  like proxy backends and so on.  <attrlist> is a list of
              attributes that are needed for  internal  purposes  and  thus  always  need  to  be
              collected, even when not explicitly requested by clients.

       hidden on | off
              Controls  whether  the  database will be used to answer queries. A database that is
              hidden will never be selected to answer any queries, and any suffix  configured  on
              the  database  will  be  ignored  in  checks for conflicts with other databases. By
              default, hidden is off.

       lastmod on | off
              Controls   whether   slapd   will   automatically   maintain   the   modifiersName,
              modifyTimestamp,  creatorsName, and createTimestamp attributes for entries. It also
              controls the entryCSN and entryUUID attributes, which are needed  by  the  syncrepl
              provider. By default, lastmod is on.

       lastbind on | off
              Controls whether slapd will automatically maintain the pwdLastSuccess attribute for
              entries. By default, lastbind is off.

       lastbind-precision <integer>
              If lastbind is enabled, specifies how frequently pwdLastSuccess  will  be  updated.
              More  than  integer  seconds  must have passed since the last successful bind. In a
              replicated environment with frequent bind activity it may be useful to set this  to
              a large value.

       limits <selector> <limit> [<limit> [...]]
              Specify  time  and  size limits based on the operation's initiator or base DN.  The
              argument <selector> can be any of

                     anonymous | users | [<dnspec>=]<pattern> | group[/oc[/at]]=<pattern>

              with

                     <dnspec> ::= dn[.<type>][.<style>]

                     <type>  ::= self | this

                     <style> ::= exact | base | onelevel | subtree | children | regex | anonymous

              DN type self is the default and means the bound user, while this means the base  DN
              of  the  operation.   The  term anonymous matches all unauthenticated clients.  The
              term users matches all authenticated clients; otherwise  an  exact  dn  pattern  is
              assumed  unless otherwise specified by qualifying the (optional) key string dn with
              exact or base (which are synonyms), to require an exact match;  with  onelevel,  to
              require exactly one level of depth match; with subtree, to allow any level of depth
              match, including the exact match; with children, to allow any level of depth match,
              not  including the exact match; regex explicitly requires the (default) match based
              on POSIX (''extended'') regular expression  pattern.   Finally,  anonymous  matches
              unbound operations; the pattern field is ignored.  The same behavior is obtained by
              using the anonymous form of the  <selector>  clause.   The  term  group,  with  the
              optional  objectClass oc and attributeType at fields, followed by pattern, sets the
              limits for any DN listed in the values of the at attribute (default member) of  the
              oc group objectClass (default groupOfNames) whose DN exactly matches pattern.

              The currently supported limits are size and time.

              The  syntax  for  time limits is time[.{soft|hard}]=<integer>, where integer is the
              number of seconds slapd will spend answering a search request.  If no time limit is
              explicitly  requested  by the client, the soft limit is used; if the requested time
              limit exceeds the hard limit, the value of the limit is used instead.  If the  hard
              limit  is  set to the keyword soft, the soft limit is used in either case; if it is
              set to the keyword unlimited, no hard limit is  enforced.   Explicit  requests  for
              time  limits smaller or equal to the hard limit are honored.  If no limit specifier
              is set, the value is assigned to the soft limit, and the hard limit is set to soft,
              to preserve the original behavior.

              The syntax for size limits is size[.{soft|hard|unchecked}]=<integer>, where integer
              is the maximum number of entries slapd will return answering a search request.   If
              no size limit is explicitly requested by the client, the soft limit is used; if the
              requested size limit exceeds the hard  limit,  the  value  of  the  limit  is  used
              instead.   If  the hard limit is set to the keyword soft, the soft limit is used in
              either case; if it is set to the keyword unlimited,  no  hard  limit  is  enforced.
              Explicit  requests  for size limits smaller or equal to the hard limit are honored.
              The unchecked specifier sets a limit on the number of candidates a  search  request
              is  allowed  to examine.  The rationale behind it is that searches for non-properly
              indexed attributes may result in large sets of candidates, which must  be  examined
              by  slapd(8)  to  determine  whether  they  match  the  search  filter or not.  The
              unchecked limit provides a means to drop  such  operations  before  they  are  even
              started.   If  the  selected candidates exceed the unchecked limit, the search will
              abort with Unwilling to perform.  If it is set to the keyword unlimited,  no  limit
              is  applied  (the  default).   If  it  is  set  to disabled, the search is not even
              performed; this can be used to disallow searches for a specific set of  users.   If
              no  limit  specifier  is set, the value is assigned to the soft limit, and the hard
              limit is set to soft, to preserve the original behavior.

              In case of no match, the global limits are used.  The default values are  the  same
              as for sizelimit and timelimit; no limit is set on unchecked.

              If  pagedResults  control  is  requested,  the  hard size limit is used by default,
              because the request of a specific page size is considered an explicit request for a
              limitation  on  the  number  of  entries  to  be returned.  However, the size limit
              applies to the total count of entries returned within the  search,  and  not  to  a
              single   page.    Additional   size   limits   may   be  enforced;  the  syntax  is
              size.pr={<integer>|noEstimate|unlimited}, where integer is the max page size if  no
              explicit limit is set; the keyword noEstimate inhibits the server from returning an
              estimate of the total number of entries that might be returned (note:  the  current
              implementation does not return any estimate).  The keyword unlimited indicates that
              no  limit  is  applied  to  the  pagedResults  control  page  size.    The   syntax
              size.prtotal={<integer>|hard|unlimited|disabled}  allows  one to set a limit on the
              total number of entries that the pagedResults control will return.  By  default  it
              is  set to the hard limit which will use the size.hard value.  When set, integer is
              the max number of entries that the  whole  search  with  pagedResults  control  can
              return.  Use unlimited to allow unlimited number of entries to be returned, e.g. to
              allow the use of the pagedResults control as a means to circumvent size limitations
              on  regular  searches;  the  keyword  disabled  disables the control, i.e. no paged
              results can be returned.  Note that the total number of entries returned  when  the
              pagedResults  control  is  requested  cannot  exceed the hard size limit of regular
              searches unless extended by the prtotal switch.

              The limits statement is typically used to let an unlimited  number  of  entries  be
              returned  by  searches  performed  with  the  identity  used  by  the  consumer for
              synchronization purposes by means of the  RFC  4533  LDAP  Content  Synchronization
              protocol (see syncrepl for details).

              When  using  subordinate  databases,  it is necessary for any limits that are to be
              applied across the parent and its subordinates to be defined in both the parent and
              its  subordinates.  Otherwise  the  settings  on  the subordinate databases are not
              honored.

       maxderefdepth <depth>
              Specifies the maximum number of aliases to dereference when trying  to  resolve  an
              entry, used to avoid infinite alias loops. The default is 15.

       multiprovider on | off
              This  option  puts a consumer database into Multi-Provider mode.  Update operations
              will be accepted from any user, not just the updatedn.  The database  must  already
              be configured as a syncrepl consumer before this keyword may be set. This mode also
              requires a serverID (see above) to be configured.   By  default,  multiprovider  is
              off.

       monitoring on | off
              This  option  enables  database-specific  monitoring  in  the  entry related to the
              current database in the "cn=Databases,cn=Monitor" subtree of the monitor  database,
              if  the  monitor  database  is  enabled.  Currently, only the MDB database provides
              database-specific monitoring.   If  monitoring  is  supported  by  the  backend  it
              defaults to on, otherwise off.

       overlay <overlay-name>
              Add  the  specified  overlay  to  this database. An overlay is a piece of code that
              intercepts database operations in order to extend  or  change  them.  Overlays  are
              pushed  onto  a stack over the database, and so they will execute in the reverse of
              the order in which they were  configured  and  the  database  itself  will  receive
              control  last  of all. See the slapd.overlays(5) manual page for an overview of the
              available overlays.  Note that all of the database's  regular  settings  should  be
              configured before any overlay settings.

       readonly on | off
              This  option  puts  the database into "read-only" mode.  Any attempts to modify the
              database will return an "unwilling to perform" error.  By default, readonly is off.

       restrict <oplist>
              Specify a whitespace separated list of operations that are restricted.  If  defined
              inside  a  database  specification,  restrictions  apply  only  to  that  database,
              otherwise they are global.  Operations can be any of add,  bind,  compare,  delete,
              extended[=<OID>], modify, rename, search, or the special pseudo-operations read and
              write, which respectively summarize read and write operations.  The use of restrict
              write is equivalent to readonly on (see above).  The extended keyword allows one to
              indicate the OID of the specific operation to be restricted.

       rootdn <dn>
              Specify  the  distinguished  name  that  is  not  subject  to  access  control   or
              administrative  limit restrictions for operations on this database.  This DN may or
              may not be associated with an entry.  An empty root DN (the default)  specifies  no
              root  access is to be granted.  It is recommended that the rootdn only be specified
              when needed (such as when initially populating  a  database).   If  the  rootdn  is
              within a namingContext (suffix) of the database, a simple bind password may also be
              provided using the rootpw directive. Many optional  features,  including  syncrepl,
              require the rootdn to be defined for the database.

       rootpw <password>
              Specify a password (or hash of the password) for the rootdn.  The password can only
              be set if the rootdn is within the namingContext (suffix) of  the  database.   This
              option  accepts  all  RFC  2307  userPassword  formats  known  to  the  server (see
              password-hash description) as well as cleartext.   slappasswd(8)  may  be  used  to
              generate   a  hash  of  a  password.   Cleartext  and  {CRYPT}  passwords  are  not
              recommended.  If empty (the default), authentication of the root  DN  is  by  other
              means (e.g. SASL).  Use of SASL is encouraged.

       suffix <dn suffix>
              Specify  the  DN  suffix  of  queries that will be passed to this backend database.
              Multiple suffix lines can be given and at least one is required for  each  database
              definition.

              If  the  suffix  of one database is "inside" that of another, the database with the
              inner suffix must come first in the configuration file.  You may also want to  glue
              such databases together with the subordinate keyword.

       subordinate [advertise]
              Specify  that  the  current  backend  database  is a subordinate of another backend
              database. A subordinate  database may have only one suffix. This option may be used
              to  glue  multiple  databases  into  a  single namingContext.  If the suffix of the
              current database is within the  namingContext  of  a  superior  database,  searches
              against the superior database will be propagated to the subordinate as well. All of
              the databases associated with a single namingContext should have identical rootdns.
              Behavior  of other LDAP operations is unaffected by this setting. In particular, it
              is not possible to use moddn to move an  entry  from  one  subordinate  to  another
              subordinate within the namingContext.

              If  the optional advertise flag is supplied, the naming context of this database is
              advertised in the root DSE. The default is to hide this database context,  so  that
              only the superior context is visible.

              If  the  slap tools slapcat(8), slapadd(8), slapmodify(8), or slapindex(8) are used
              on the superior database, any glued  subordinates  that  support  these  tools  are
              opened as well.

              Databases  that  are  glued  together  should  usually  be configured with the same
              indices (assuming they support indexing), even for attributes that  only  exist  in
              some  of  these  databases.  In  general,  all  of  the  glued  databases should be
              configured as similarly as possible, since the intent is to provide the  appearance
              of a single directory.

              Note  that  the  subordinate  functionality  is  implemented internally by the glue
              overlay and as such its behavior will interact  with  other  overlays  in  use.  By
              default,  the  glue  overlay is automatically configured as the last overlay on the
              superior backend. Its position on the  backend  can  be  explicitly  configured  by
              setting   an  overlay  glue  directive  at  the  desired  position.  This  explicit
              configuration is necessary e.g.  when using the syncprov overlay,  which  needs  to
              follow glue in order to work over all of the glued databases. E.g.
                   database mdb
                   suffix dc=example,dc=com
                   ...
                   overlay glue
                   overlay syncprov

       sync_use_subentry
              Store  the  syncrepl  contextCSN  in a subentry instead of the context entry of the
              database. The subentry's RDN will be "cn=ldapsync". By default  the  contextCSN  is
              stored in the context entry.

       syncrepl   rid=<replica   ID>  provider=ldap[s]://<hostname>[:port]  searchbase=<base  DN>
              [type=refreshOnly|refreshAndPersist]     [interval=dd:hh:mm:ss]      [retry=[<retry
              interval>  <#  of  retries>]+]  [filter=<filter  str>]  [scope=sub|one|base|subord]
              [attrs=<attr   list>]   [exattrs=<attr   list>]   [attrsonly]   [sizelimit=<limit>]
              [timelimit=<limit>]       [schemachecking=on|off]       [network-timeout=<seconds>]
              [timeout=<seconds>]   [tcp-user-timeout=<milliseconds>]    [bindmethod=simple|sasl]
              [binddn=<dn>]     [saslmech=<mech>]    [authcid=<identity>]    [authzid=<identity>]
              [credentials=<passwd>]           [realm=<realm>]            [secprops=<properties>]
              [keepalive=<idle>:<probes>:<interval>]   [starttls=yes|critical]  [tls_cert=<file>]
              [tls_key=<file>]             [tls_cacert=<file>]             [tls_cacertdir=<path>]
              [tls_reqcert=never|allow|try|demand]            [tls_reqsan=never|allow|try|demand]
              [tls_cipher_suite=<ciphers>]   [tls_ecname=<names>]    [tls_crlcheck=none|peer|all]
              [tls_protocol_min=<major>[.<minor>]]  [suffixmassage=<real DN>] [logbase=<base DN>]
              [logfilter=<filter str>] [syncdata=default|accesslog|changelog] [lazycommit]
              Specify the current database as a  consumer  which  is  kept  up-to-date  with  the
              provider  content  by  establishing  the current slapd(8) as a replication consumer
              site  running  a  syncrepl  replication  engine.   The  consumer  content  is  kept
              synchronized  to  the  provider  content  using  the  LDAP  Content Synchronization
              protocol. Refer to the "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" for detailed information on
              setting  up  a  replicated  slapd  directory service using the syncrepl replication
              engine.

              rid identifies the current syncrepl directive within the replication consumer site.
              It  is  a  non-negative  integer  not  greater  than  999 (limited to three decimal
              digits).

              provider specifies the replication provider site containing the provider content as
              an  LDAP URI. If <port> is not given, the standard LDAP port number (389 or 636) is
              used.

              The content of the syncrepl consumer is defined using a search specification as its
              result  set.  The  consumer  slapd  will send search requests to the provider slapd
              according  to  the  search  specification.  The   search   specification   includes
              searchbase, scope, filter, attrs, attrsonly, sizelimit, and timelimit parameters as
              in the normal search specification. The exattrs option may also be used to  specify
              attributes  that  should  be  omitted from incoming entries.  The scope defaults to
              sub, the filter defaults to (objectclass=*), and there is  no  default  searchbase.
              The attrs list defaults to "*,+" to return all user and operational attributes, and
              attrsonly and exattrs are unset by  default.   The  sizelimit  and  timelimit  only
              accept  "unlimited"  and  positive  integers, and both default to "unlimited".  The
              sizelimit and timelimit parameters define a consumer requested  limitation  on  the
              number  of  entries  that  can  be  returned  by  the  LDAP Content Synchronization
              operation; these should be left unchanged from the  default  otherwise  replication
              may   never  succeed.   Note,  however,  that  any  provider-side  limits  for  the
              replication identity will be enforced by the  provider  regardless  of  the  limits
              requested  by  the  LDAP Content Synchronization operation, much like for any other
              search operation.

              The LDAP  Content  Synchronization  protocol  has  two  operation  types.   In  the
              refreshOnly  operation,  the  next synchronization search operation is periodically
              rescheduled at an interval time (specified by interval parameter; 1 day by default)
              after each synchronization operation finishes.  In the refreshAndPersist operation,
              a synchronization search remains persistent in the provider slapd.  Further updates
              to the provider will generate searchResultEntry to the consumer slapd as the search
              responses to the persistent synchronization search. If the initial search fails due
              to  an error, the next synchronization search operation is periodically rescheduled
              at an interval time (specified by interval parameter; 1 day by default)

              If an error occurs during replication,  the  consumer  will  attempt  to  reconnect
              according  to the retry parameter which is a list of the <retry interval> and <# of
              retries> pairs.  For example, retry="60 10 300 3" lets the consumer retry every  60
              seconds  for  the  first  10  times and then retry every 300 seconds for the next 3
              times before stop retrying. The `+' in <# of retries> means  indefinite  number  of
              retries until success.  If no retry is specified, by default syncrepl retries every
              hour forever.

              The schema checking can be enforced at the LDAP Sync consumer site  by  turning  on
              the  schemachecking  parameter.  The default is off.  Schema checking on means that
              replicated entries must have a structural objectClass,  must  obey  to  objectClass
              requirements  in  terms  of required/allowed attributes, and that naming attributes
              and distinguished values must be present.  As a consequence, schema checking should
              be off when partial replication is used.

              The  network-timeout  parameter sets how long the consumer will wait to establish a
              network connection to the provider. Once a connection is established,  the  timeout
              parameter  determines  how long the consumer will wait for the initial Bind request
              to complete. The  defaults  for  these  parameters  come  from  ldap.conf(5).   The
              tcp-user-timeout parameter, if non-zero, corresponds to the TCP_USER_TIMEOUT set on
              the target connections, overriding the operating system setting.  Only some systems
              support  the  customization  of this parameter, it is ignored otherwise and system-
              wide settings are used.

              A bindmethod of simple requires the options binddn and credentials and should  only
              be  used  when  adequate  security  services  (e.g.  TLS  or  IPSEC)  are in place.
              REMEMBER: simple bind credentials must be  in  cleartext!   A  bindmethod  of  sasl
              requires  the  option  saslmech.   Depending  on  the  mechanism, an authentication
              identity and/or credentials can be specified using authcid  and  credentials.   The
              authzid  parameter  may  be  used  to  specify an authorization identity.  Specific
              security properties (as with the sasl-secprops keyword above) for a SASL  bind  can
              be set with the secprops option. A non default SASL realm can be set with the realm
              option.  The identity used for synchronization by the consumer should be allowed to
              receive  an  unlimited  number  of  entries  in  response to a search request.  The
              provider, other than allowing authentication of the syncrepl identity, should grant
              that  identity  appropriate  access privileges to the data that is being replicated
              (access directive), and appropriate time and size limits.  This can be accomplished
              by  either allowing unlimited sizelimit and timelimit, or by setting an appropriate
              limits statement in the consumer's configuration  (see  sizelimit  and  limits  for
              details).

              The keepalive parameter sets the values of idle, probes, and interval used to check
              whether a socket is alive; idle is the number of  seconds  a  connection  needs  to
              remain  idle  before  TCP  starts  sending  keepalive probes; probes is the maximum
              number of keepalive probes TCP should send before dropping the connection; interval
              is  interval  in  seconds  between  individual keepalive probes.  Only some systems
              support the customization of these  values;  the  keepalive  parameter  is  ignored
              otherwise, and system-wide settings are used.

              The  starttls  parameter  specifies  use  of  the  StartTLS  extended  operation to
              establish a TLS session before Binding to the provider. If the critical argument is
              supplied,  the session will be aborted if the StartTLS request fails. Otherwise the
              syncrepl session  continues  without  TLS.  The  tls_reqcert  setting  defaults  to
              "demand",  the  tls_reqsan  setting defaults to "allow", and the other TLS settings
              default to the same as the main slapd TLS settings.

              The suffixmassage parameter allows the consumer  to  pull  entries  from  a  remote
              directory  whose  DN  suffix  differs  from the local directory. The portion of the
              remote entries'  DNs  that  matches  the  searchbase  will  be  replaced  with  the
              suffixmassage DN.

              Rather  than  replicating  whole  entries,  the  consumer  can  query  logs of data
              modifications. This mode of operation is referred to as delta syncrepl. In addition
              to  the  above  parameters,  the  logbase  and  logfilter  parameters  must  be set
              appropriately for the log that will be used. The syncdata parameter must be set  to
              either  "accesslog"  if  the  log conforms to the slapo-accesslog(5) log format, or
              "changelog" if the log conforms to the obsolete changelog format. If  the  syncdata
              parameter is omitted or set to "default" then the log parameters are ignored.

              The  lazycommit  parameter  tells the underlying database that it can store changes
              without performing a full flush after each change. This may improve performance for
              the consumer, while sacrificing safety or durability.

       updatedn <dn>
              This  option  is  only  applicable  in  a  replica  database.   It specifies the DN
              permitted to update (subject to access controls) the replica.  It is only needed in
              certain push-mode replication scenarios.  Generally, this DN should not be the same
              as the rootdn used at the provider.

       updateref <url>
              Specify the referral to pass back when slapd(8) is asked  to  modify  a  replicated
              local database.  If specified multiple times, each url is provided.

DATABASE-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

       Each  database may allow specific configuration options; they are documented separately in
       the backends' manual pages. See the slapd.backends(5)  manual  page  for  an  overview  of
       available backends.

EXAMPLES

       Here is a short example of a configuration file:

              include   /etc/ldap/schema/core.schema
              pidfile   /var/run/slapd.pid

              # Subtypes of "name" (e.g. "cn" and "ou") with the
              # option ";x-hidden" can be searched for/compared,
              # but are not shown.  See slapd.access(5).
              attributeoptions x-hidden lang-
              access to attrs=name;x-hidden by * =cs

              # Protect passwords.  See slapd.access(5).
              access    to attrs=userPassword  by * auth
              # Read access to other attributes and entries.
              access    to *  by * read

              database  mdb
              suffix    "dc=our-domain,dc=com"
              # The database directory MUST exist prior to
              # running slapd AND should only be accessible
              # by the slapd/tools. Mode 0700 recommended.
              directory /var/lib/ldap
              # Indices to maintain
              index     objectClass  eq
              index     cn,sn,mail   pres,eq,approx,sub

              # We serve small clients that do not handle referrals,
              # so handle remote lookups on their behalf.
              database  ldap
              suffix    ""
              uri       ldap://ldap.some-server.com/
              lastmod   off

       "OpenLDAP  Administrator's  Guide"  contains a longer annotated example of a configuration
       file.  The original /etc/ldap/slapd.conf is another example.

FILES

       /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
              default slapd configuration file

SEE ALSO

       ldap(3),    gnutls-cli(1),    slapd-config(5),     slapd.access(5),     slapd.backends(5),
       slapd.overlays(5),   slapd.plugin(5),   slapd(8),   slapacl(8),  slapadd(8),  slapauth(8),
       slapcat(8), slapdn(8), slapindex(8), slapmodify(8), slappasswd(8), slaptest(8).

       "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)

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.