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SLAPD(8C)
NAME
  slapd - Stand-alone LDAP Daemon

SYNOPSIS
  /usr/internet/openldap/libexec/slapd [-[4|6]] [-d debug-level] [-f
  slapd-config-file] [-h URLs] [-n service-name] [-s syslog-level] [-l
  syslog-local-user] [-r directory] [-u user] [-g group] [-t]

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
  -4   Listen on IPv4 addresses only.

  -6   Listen on IPv6 addresses only.

  -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.  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 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 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 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, except an
       experimental extension to indicate the permissions of the underlying
       socket, on those OSes that honor them.  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.  The socket permissions for LDAP over
       IPC 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
       (note, however, that sockets only honor the "w" permission), while any
       of the "7" can be any legal octal digit, according to chmod(1).

  -r directory
       Specifies a chroot "jail" directory.  slapd will chdir(2) then
       chroot(2) to this directory after opening listeners but before 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.

  -t   slapd will read the configuration file (the default if none is given
       with the -f switch) and check its syntax, without opening any listener
       or database.

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 /var/tmp/slapd.conf -d 255

  To test whether the configuration file is correct or not, type:

	  /usr/internet/openldap/libexec/slapd -t

SEE ALSO
  ldap(3), slapd.conf(5), slapd.access(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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