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SLAPD.PLUGIN(5)
NAME
  slapd.plugin - plugin configuration for slapd, the stand-alone LDAP daemon

SYNOPSIS
  /usr/internet/openldap/etc/slapd.conf

DESCRIPTION
  The slapd.conf(5) file contains configuration information for the slapd(8)
  daemon. This configuration file is also used by the slurpd(8) replication
  daemon and by the SLAPD tools slapadd(8), slapcat(8), and slapindex(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 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
      ...

  If slapd is compiled with --enable-slapi, support for plugins according to
  Netscape's Directory Server Plug-Ins.	 Version 4 of the API is currently
  implemented, with some extensions from version 5.

  Both global and database specific data may contain plugin information.
  Plugins associated with a specific database are called before global
  plugins.  This manpage details the slapd(8) configuration statements that
  affect the loading of SLAPI plugins.

  Arguments that should be replaced by actual text are shown in brackets <>.

  The structure of the plugin directives is

  plugin <type> <lib_path> <init_function> [<arguments>]
       Load a plugin of the specified type for the current database.

  The <type> can be one of preoperation, that is executed before processing
  the operation for the specified database, postoperation, that is executed
  after the operation for the specified database has been processed,
  extendedop, that is used when executing an extended operation, or object.
  The latter is used for miscellaneous types such as ACL, computed attribute
  and search filter rewriter plugins.

  The <libpath> argument specifies the path to the plugin loadable object; if
  a relative path is given, the object is looked for according to the
  underlying dynamic loading package (libtool's ltdl is used).

  The <init_function> argument specifies what symbol must be called when the
  plugin is first loaded.  This function should register the functions
  provided by the plugin for the desired operations. It should be noted that
  it is this init function, not the plugin type specified as the first
  argument, that determines when and for what operations the plugin will be
  invoked.  The optional <arguments> list is passed to the init function.

  pluginlog <file>
       Specify an alternative path for the plugin log file (default is
       /usr/internet/openldap/var/error).

  modulepath <pathspec>
       This statement sets the module load path for dynamically loadable
       backends, as described in slapd.conf(5); however, since both the
       dynamically loadable backends and the SLAPI plugins use the same
       underlying library (libtool's ltdl) its value also affects the plugin
       search path.  In general the search path is made of colon-separated
       paths; usually the user-defined path is searched first; then the value
       of the LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, if defined, is used;
       finally, the system-specific dynamic load path is attempted (e.g. on
       Linux the value of the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH).  Please
       carefully read the documentation of ltdl because its behavior is very
       platform dependent.

FILES
  /usr/internet/openldap/etc/slapd.conf
       default slapd configuration file

SEE ALSO
  slapd(8),

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

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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