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SLAPD(8C)


NAME

  slapd - Stand-alone LDAP Daemon


SYNOPSIS

  /usr/internet/openldap/libexec/slapd [-f slapd-config-file] [-h URLs] [-d
  debug-level] [-n service-name] [-s syslog-level] [-l syslog-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), 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
  /usr/internet/openldap/etc/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 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.

  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 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.  See <ldap.h> for details.

  -s syslog-level
       This option tells slapd at what level debugging statements should be
       logged to the syslog(8) facility.

  -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 option is only permitted on systems that support local
       users with the syslog(8) facility.

  -f slapd-config-file
       Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is
       /usr/internet/openldap/etc/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 sockets).  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 without a DN or other optional
       parameters.  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 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 configuration 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 terminal and start
  serving the LDAP databases defined in the default config file, just type:

	  /usr/internet/openldap/libexec/slapd

  To start slapd with an alternate configuration file, and turn on voluminous
  debugging which will be printed on standard error, type:

	  /usr/internet/openldap/libexec/slapd -f /usr/internet/openldap/etc/slapd.conf -d 255


SEE ALSO

  ldap(3), slapd.conf(5), slurpd(8)

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


BUGS

  See http://www.openldap.org/its/


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

	OpenLDAP is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project
  (http://www.openldap.org/).	     OpenLDAP is derived from University of
  Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.

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