slapd - Stand-alone LDAP Daemon
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/slapd [-f slapd-config-file] [-h URLs] [-d
debug-level] [-n service-name] [-s syslog-level] [-l sys
log-local-user] [-r directory] [-u user] [-g group]
DESCRIPTION
Slapd is the stand-alone LDAP daemon. It listens for LDAP
connections on any number of ports (default 389), respond
ing to the LDAP operations it receives over these connec
tions. 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 con
figured in /etc/openldap/slapd.conf, the slapd process
will print its process ID ( see getpid(2) ) to a .pid
file, as well as the command line options during invoca
tion 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.
Slapd can be configured to provide replicated service for
a database with the help of slurpd, the standalone LDAP
update replication daemon. See slurpd(8) for details.
See the "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" for more details
on slapd.
OPTIONS
-d debug-level
Turn on debugging as defined by debug-level. If
this option is specified, even with a zero argu
ment, slapd will not fork or disassociate from the
invoking terminal. Some general operation and sta
tus 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. See <ldap.h> for details.
-s syslog-level
This option tells slapd at what level debugging
statements should be logged to the syslog(8) facil
ity.
-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.
Values can be LOCAL0, LOCAL1, and so on, up to
LOCAL7. The default is LOCAL4. However, this
local users with the syslog(8) facility.
-f slapd-config-file
Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default
is /etc/openldap/slapd.conf.
-h URLlist
slapd will serve ldap:/// (LDAP over TCP on all
interfaces on default LDAP port). That is, it will
bind to using INADDR_ANY and port 389. The -h
option may be used to specify LDAP (and LDAPS) URLs
to serve. For example, if slapd is given -h
ldap://127.0.0.1:9009/ ldaps:/// ldapi:/// , It
will bind 127.0.0.1:9009 for LDAP, 0.0.0.0:636 for
LDAP over TLS, and LDAP over IPC (Unix domain sock
ets). Host 0.0.0.0 represents INADDR_ANY. A space
separated list of URLs is expected. The URLs
should be of LDAP (ldap://) or LDAP over TLS
(ldaps://) or LDAP over IPC (ldapi://) scheme with
out a DN or other optional parameters. Support for
the latter two schemes depends on selected configu
ration options. Hosts may be specified by name or
IPv4 and IPv6 address formats. Ports, if specfied,
must be numeric. The default ldap:// port is 389
and the default ldaps:// port is 636.
-r directory
Specifies a chroot "jail" directory. slapd will
chdir(2) then chroot(2) to this directory after
opening listeners but before any reading any con
figuration file or initializing any backend.
-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.
-g group
slapd will run with the specified group name or id.
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.
EXAMPLES
To start slapd and have it fork and detach from the termi
nal and start serving the LDAP databases defined in the
default config file, just type:
/usr/sbin/slapd
turn on voluminous debugging which will be printed on
standard error, type:
/usr/sbin/slapd -f /etc/openldap/slapd.conf -d 255
SEE ALSO
ldap(3), slapd.conf(5), slurpd(8)
"OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenL
DAP.org/doc/admin/)
BUGS
See http://www.openldap.org/its/
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OpenLDAP is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Pro
ject (http://www.openldap.org/). OpenLDAP is derived from
University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.
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