slapd(8)
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-leveli 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 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 University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.
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