openldap/doc/man/man8/slapd.8

.TH SLAPD 8C "3 April 1999" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
.SH NAME
slapd \- Stand-alone LDAP Daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B LIBEXECDIR/slapd [\-d debug\-level]
.B [\-f slapd\-config\-file] [\-a address] [\-p port\-number]
.B [\-s syslog\-level] [\-l syslog\-local\-user] [\-i]
.B [\-u user] [\-g group]
.B 
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
.B Slapd
is the stand-alone LDAP daemon. It listens for LDAP connections on
port 389, responding
to the LDAP operations it receives over these connections.
.B slapd
is typically invoked at boot time, usually out of
.BR  /etc/rc.local .
Upon startup,
.B slapd
normally forks and disassociates itself from the invoking tty.
If configured in
.BR ETCDIR/slapd.conf ,
the
.B slapd
process will print its process ID ( see
.BR getpid (2)
) to a 
.B .pid
file, as well as the command line options during invocation to an
.B .args
file ( see 
.BR slapd.conf (5)
).
If the
.B \-d
flag is given and debugging is set to some non-zero
value,
.B slapd
will not fork and disassociate from the invoking tty.
.LP
.B Slapd
can be configured to provide replicated service for a database with
the help of
.BR slurpd ,
the standalone LDAP update replication daemon.
See
.BR slurpd (8)
for details.
.LP
See "The SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide" for more details on
.BR slapd .
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-d " debug\-level"
Turn on debugging as defined by
.I debug\-level.
If this option is specified,
.B slapd
will not fork or disassociate from the invoking terminal.  Some general
operation and status messages are printed for any value of \fIdebug\-level\fP.
\fIdebug\-level\fP is taken as a bit string, with each bit corresponding to a
different kind of debugging information.  See <ldap.h> for details.
.TP
.BI \-s " syslog\-level"
This option tells
.B slapd
at what level debugging statements should be logged to the
.BR syslog (8)
facility.
.TP
.BI \-l " syslog\-local\-user"
Selects the local user of the
.BR syslog (8)
facility. Values can be 
.BR LOCAL0 , 
.BR LOCAL1 , 
and so on, up to 
.BR LOCAL7 . 
The default is
.BR LOCAL4 .
However, this option is only permitted on systems that support
local users with the 
.BR syslog (8)
facility.
.TP
.BI \-f " slapd\-config\-file"
Specifies the slapd configuration file. The default is
.BR ETCDIR/slapd.conf .
.TP
.BI \-a " address"
.B slapd
will listen on all addresses (INADDR_ANY) unless this option
is given to override the default.  The address is expected in 
Internet standard '.' format.
.TP
.BI \-p " port\-number"
.B slapd
will listen on the default LDAP port (389) unless this option is given
to override the default.  A numeric port number is expected.
.TP
.BI \-T
If
.B slapd
is built with support for Transport Layer Security and this option is
given, it will bind on an additional port for TLS/SSL connections.
Notice that this is LDAP over raw TLS, not TLS with SASL that works
on the normal port.
.TP
.BI \-P " port\-number"
Changes the port where 
.B slapd
will expect LDAP over raw TLS connections.  If this option is not given,
the default port for this purpose (636) will be used.  A numeric port
number is expected.
.TP
.BI \-u " user"
.B 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.
.TP
.BI \-g " group"
.B slapd
will run with the specified group name or id.
.TP
.B \-i
This option tells
.B slapd
that it is being run from
.BR inetd(8) ,
the Internet protocol daemon.
.LP
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.
.SH EXAMPLES
To start 
.I slapd
and have it fork and detach from the terminal and start serving
the LDAP databases defined in the default config file, just type:
.LP
.nf
.ft tt
	LIBEXECDIR/slapd
.ft
.fi
.LP
To start 
.B slapd
with an alternate configuration file, and turn
on voluminous debugging which will be printed on standard error, type:
.LP
.nf
.ft tt
	LIBEXECDIR/slapd -f ETCDIR/slapd.conf -d 255
.ft
.fi
.LP
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ldap (3),
.BR slapd.conf (5),
.BR slurpd (8)
.LP
"The SLAPD and SLURPD Administrator's Guide"
.SH BUGS
When using the LDBM database backend, the Modify RDN operation does not
update the attribute values in the entry that are affected by the change.
.SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
.B	OpenLDAP
is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project (http://www.openldap.org/).
.B	OpenLDAP
is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.