slapd-config(5) File Formats Manual slapd-config(5)
NAME
slapd-config - configuration backend to slapd
SYNOPSIS
/opt/local/etc/openldap/slapd.d
DESCRIPTION
The config backend manages all of the configuration information for the
slapd(8) daemon. This configuration information is also used by the
SLAPD tools slapacl(8), slapadd(8), slapauth(8), slapcat(8), slapdn(8),
slapindex(8), slapmodify(8), and slaptest(8).
The config backend is backward compatible with the older slapd.conf(5)
file but provides the ability to change the configuration dynamically
at runtime. If slapd is run with only a slapd.conf file dynamic changes
will be allowed but they will not persist across a server restart.
Dynamic changes are only saved when slapd is running from a slapd.d
configuration directory.
Unlike other backends, there can only be one instance of the config
backend, and most of its structure is predefined. The root of the
database is hardcoded to cn=config and this root entry contains global
settings for slapd. Multiple child entries underneath the root entry
are used to carry various other settings:
cn=Module
dynamically loaded modules
cn=Schema
schema definitions
olcBackend=xxx
backend-specific settings
olcDatabase=xxx
database-specific settings
The cn=Module entries will only appear in configurations where slapd
was built with support for dynamically loaded modules. There can be
multiple entries, one for each configured module path. Within each
entry there will be values recorded for each module loaded on a given
path. These entries have no children.
The cn=Schema entry contains all of the hardcoded schema elements. The
children of this entry contain all user-defined schema elements. In
schema that were loaded from include files, the child entry will be
named after the include file from which the schema was loaded.
Typically the first child in this subtree will be
cn=core,cn=schema,cn=config.
olcBackend entries are for storing settings specific to a single
backend type (and thus global to all database instances of that type).
At present, only back-mdb implements any options of this type, so this
setting is not needed for any other backends.
olcDatabase entries store settings specific to a single database
instance. These entries may have olcOverlay child entries corresponding
to any overlays configured on the database. The olcDatabase and
olcOverlay entries may also have miscellaneous child entries for other
settings as needed. There are two special database entries that are
predefined - one is an entry for the config database itself, and the
other is for the "frontend" database. Settings in the frontend database
are inherited by the other databases, unless they are explicitly
overridden in a specific database.
The specific configuration options available are discussed below in the
Global Configuration Options, General Backend Options, and General
Database Options. Options are set by defining LDAP attributes with
specific values. In general the names of the LDAP attributes are the
same as the corresponding slapd.conf keyword, with an "olc" prefix
added on.
The parser for many of these attributes is the same as used for parsing
the slapd.conf keywords. As such, slapd.conf keywords that allow
multiple items to be specified on one line, separated by whitespace,
will allow multiple items to be specified in one attribute value.
However, when reading the attribute via LDAP, the items will be
returned as individual attribute values.
Backend-specific options are discussed in the slapd-<backend>(5) manual
pages. Refer to the "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" for more details
on configuring slapd.
GLOBAL CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
Options described in this section apply to the server as a whole.
Arguments that should be replaced by actual text are shown in brackets
<>.
These options may only be specified in the cn=config entry. This entry
must have an objectClass of olcGlobal.
olcAllows: <features>
Specify a set of features to allow (default none). bind_v2
allows acceptance of LDAPv2 bind requests. Note that slapd(8)
does not truly implement LDAPv2 (RFC 1777), now Historic (RFC
3494). bind_anon_cred allows anonymous bind when credentials
are not empty (e.g. when DN is empty). bind_anon_dn allows
unauthenticated (anonymous) bind when DN is not empty.
update_anon allows unauthenticated (anonymous) update operations
to be processed (subject to access controls and other
administrative limits). proxy_authz_anon allows unauthenticated
(anonymous) proxy authorization control to be processed (subject
to access controls, authorization and other administrative
limits).
olcArgsFile: <filename>
The (absolute) name of a file that will hold the slapd server's
command line (program name and options).
olcAttributeOptions: <option-name>...
Define tagging attribute options or option tag/range prefixes.
Options must not end with `-', prefixes must end with `-'. The
`lang-' prefix is predefined. If you use the
olcAttributeOptions directive, `lang-' will no longer be defined
and you must specify it explicitly if you want it defined.
An attribute description with a tagging option is a subtype of
that attribute description without the option. Except for that,
options defined this way have no special semantics. Prefixes
defined this way work like the `lang-' options: They define a
prefix for tagging options starting with the prefix. That is,
if you define the prefix `x-foo-', you can use the option
`x-foo-bar'. Furthermore, in a search or compare, a prefix or
range name (with a trailing `-') matches all options starting
with that name, as well as the option with the range name sans
the trailing `-'. That is, `x-foo-bar-' matches `x-foo-bar' and
`x-foo-bar-baz'.
RFC 4520 reserves options beginning with `x-' for private
experiments. Other options should be registered with IANA, see
RFC 4520 section 3.5. OpenLDAP also has the `binary' option
built in, but this is a transfer option, not a tagging option.
olcAuthIDRewrite: <rewrite-rule>
Used by the authentication framework to convert simple user
names to an LDAP DN used for authorization purposes. Its
purpose is analogous to that of olcAuthzRegexp (see below). The
rewrite-rule is a set of rules analogous to those described in
slapo-rwm(5) for data rewriting (after stripping the rwm-
prefix). olcAuthIDRewrite and olcAuthzRegexp should not be
intermixed.
olcAuthzPolicy: <policy>
Used to specify which rules to use for Proxy Authorization.
Proxy authorization allows a client to authenticate to the
server using one user's credentials, but specify a different
identity to use for authorization and access control purposes.
It essentially allows user A to login as user B, using user A's
password. The none flag disables proxy authorization. This is
the default setting. The from flag will use rules in the
authzFrom attribute of the authorization DN. The to flag will
use rules in the authzTo attribute of the authentication DN.
The any flag, an alias for the deprecated value of both, will
allow any of the above, whatever succeeds first (checked in to,
from sequence. The all flag requires both authorizations to
succeed.
The rules are mechanisms to specify which identities are allowed
to perform proxy authorization. The authzFrom attribute in an
entry specifies which other users are allowed to proxy login to
this entry. The authzTo attribute in an entry specifies which
other users this user can authorize as. Use of authzTo rules
can be easily abused if users are allowed to write arbitrary
values to this attribute. In general the authzTo attribute must
be protected with ACLs such that only privileged users can
modify it. The value of authzFrom and authzTo describes an
identity or a set of identities; it can take five forms:
ldap:///<base>??[<scope>]?<filter>
dn[.<dnstyle>]:<pattern>
u[.<mech>[<realm>]]:<pattern>
group[/objectClass[/attributeType]]:<pattern>
<pattern>
<dnstyle>:={exact|onelevel|children|subtree|regex}
The first form is a valid LDAP URI where the <host>:<port>, the
<attrs> and the <extensions> portions must be absent, so that
the search occurs locally on either authzFrom or authzTo.
The second form is a DN, with the optional style modifiers
exact, onelevel, children, and subtree for exact, onelevel,
children and subtree matches, which cause <pattern> to be
normalized according to the DN normalization rules, or the
special regex style, which causes the <pattern> to be treated as
a POSIX (''extended'') regular expression, as discussed in
regex(7) and/or re_format(7). A pattern of * means any non-
anonymous DN.
The third form is a SASL id, with the optional fields <mech> and
<realm> that allow to specify a SASL mechanism, and eventually a
SASL realm, for those mechanisms that support one. The need to
allow the specification of a mechanism is still debated, and
users are strongly discouraged to rely on this possibility.
The fourth form is a group specification. It consists of the
keyword group, optionally followed by the specification of the
group objectClass and attributeType. The objectClass defaults
to groupOfNames. The attributeType defaults to member. The
group with DN <pattern> is searched with base scope, filtered on
the specified objectClass. The values of the resulting
attributeType are searched for the asserted DN.
The fifth form is provided for backwards compatibility. If no
identity type is provided, i.e. only <pattern> is present, an
exact DN is assumed; as a consequence, <pattern> is subjected to
DN normalization.
Since the interpretation of authzFrom and authzTo can impact
security, users are strongly encouraged to explicitly set the
type of identity specification that is being used. A subset of
these rules can be used as third arg in the olcAuthzRegexp
statement (see below); significantly, the URI, provided it
results in exactly one entry, and the dn.exact:<dn> forms.
olcAuthzRegexp: <match> <replace>
Used by the authentication framework to convert simple user
names, such as provided by SASL subsystem, or extracted from
certificates in case of cert-based SASL EXTERNAL, or provided
within the RFC 4370 "proxied authorization" control, to an LDAP
DN used for authorization purposes. Note that the resulting DN
need not refer to an existing entry to be considered valid.
When an authorization request is received from the SASL
subsystem, the SASL USERNAME, REALM, and MECHANISM are taken,
when available, and combined into a name of the form
UID=<username>[[,CN=<realm>],CN=<mechanism>],CN=auth
This name is then compared against the match POSIX
(''extended'') regular expression, and if the match is
successful, the name is replaced with the replace string. If
there are wildcard strings in the match regular expression that
are enclosed in parenthesis, e.g.
UID=([^,]*),CN=.*
then the portion of the name that matched the wildcard will be
stored in the numbered placeholder variable $1. If there are
other wildcard strings in parenthesis, the matching strings will
be in $2, $3, etc. up to $9. The placeholders can then be used
in the replace string, e.g.
UID=$1,OU=Accounts,DC=example,DC=com
The replaced name can be either a DN, i.e. a string prefixed by
"dn:", or an LDAP URI. If the latter, the server will use the
URI to search its own database(s) and, if the search returns
exactly one entry, the name is replaced by the DN of that entry.
The LDAP URI must have no hostport, attrs, or extensions
components, but the filter is mandatory, e.g.
ldap:///OU=Accounts,DC=example,DC=com??one?(UID=$1)
The protocol portion of the URI must be strictly ldap. Note
that this search is subject to access controls. Specifically,
the authentication identity must have "auth" access in the
subject.
Multiple olcAuthzRegexp values can be specified to allow for
multiple matching and replacement patterns. The matching
patterns are checked in the order they appear in the attribute,
stopping at the first successful match.
olcConcurrency: <integer>
Specify a desired level of concurrency. Provided to the
underlying thread system as a hint. The default is not to
provide any hint. This setting is only meaningful on some
platforms where there is not a one to one correspondence between
user threads and kernel threads.
olcConnMaxPending: <integer>
Specify the maximum number of pending requests for an anonymous
session. If requests are submitted faster than the server can
process them, they will be queued up to this limit. If the limit
is exceeded, the session is closed. The default is 100.
olcConnMaxPendingAuth: <integer>
Specify the maximum number of pending requests for an
authenticated session. The default is 1000.
olcDisallows: <features>
Specify a set of features to disallow (default none). bind_anon
disables acceptance of anonymous bind requests. Note that this
setting does not prohibit anonymous directory access (See
"require authc"). bind_simple disables simple (bind)
authentication. tls_2_anon disables forcing session to
anonymous status (see also tls_authc) upon StartTLS operation
receipt. tls_authc disallows the StartTLS operation if
authenticated (see also tls_2_anon). proxy_authz_non_critical
disables acceptance of the proxied authorization control
(RFC4370) with criticality set to FALSE.
dontusecopy_non_critical disables acceptance of the dontUseCopy
control (a work in progress) with criticality set to FALSE.
olcGentleHUP: { TRUE | FALSE }
A SIGHUP signal will only cause a 'gentle' shutdown-attempt:
Slapd will stop listening for new connections, but will not
close the connections to the current clients. Future write
operations return unwilling-to-perform, though. Slapd
terminates when all clients have closed their connections (if
they ever do), or - as before - if it receives a SIGTERM signal.
This can be useful if you wish to terminate the server and start
a new slapd server with another database, without disrupting the
currently active clients. The default is FALSE. You may wish
to use olcIdleTimeout along with this option.
olcIdleTimeout: <integer>
Specify the number of seconds to wait before forcibly closing an
idle client connection. A setting of 0 disables this feature.
The default is 0. You may also want to set the olcWriteTimeout
option.
olcIndexHash64: { TRUE | FALSE }
Use a 64 bit hash for indexing. The default is to use 32 bit
hashes. These hashes are used for equality and substring
indexing. The 64 bit version may be needed to avoid index
collisions when the number of indexed values exceeds ~64
million. (Note that substring indexing generates multiple index
values per actual attribute value.) Indices generated with 32
bit hashes are incompatible with the 64 bit version, and vice
versa. Any existing databases must be fully reloaded when
changing this setting. This directive is only supported on 64
bit CPUs.
olcIndexIntLen: <integer>
Specify the key length for ordered integer indices. The most
significant bytes of the binary integer will be used for index
keys. The default value is 4, which provides exact indexing for
31 bit values. A floating point representation is used to index
too large values.
olcIndexSubstrIfMaxlen: <integer>
Specify the maximum length for subinitial and subfinal indices.
Only this many characters of an attribute value will be
processed by the indexing functions; any excess characters are
ignored. The default is 4.
olcIndexSubstrIfMinlen: <integer>
Specify the minimum length for subinitial and subfinal indices.
An attribute value must have at least this many characters in
order to be processed by the indexing functions. The default is
2.
olcIndexSubstrAnyLen: <integer>
Specify the length used for subany indices. An attribute value
must have at least this many characters in order to be
processed. Attribute values longer than this length will be
processed in segments of this length. The default is 4. The
subany index will also be used in subinitial and subfinal index
lookups when the filter string is longer than the
olcIndexSubstrIfMaxlen value.
olcIndexSubstrAnyStep: <integer>
Specify the steps used in subany index lookups. This value sets
the offset for the segments of a filter string that are
processed for a subany index lookup. The default is 2. For
example, with the default values, a search using this filter
"cn=*abcdefgh*" would generate index lookups for "abcd", "cdef",
and "efgh".
Note: Indexing support depends on the particular backend in use. Also,
changing these settings will generally require deleting any indices
that depend on these parameters and recreating them with slapindex(8).
olcListenerThreads: <integer>
Specify the number of threads to use for the connection manager.
The default is 1 and this is typically adequate for up to 16 CPU
cores. The value should be set to a power of 2.
olcLocalSSF: <SSF>
Specifies the Security Strength Factor (SSF) to be given local
LDAP sessions, such as those to the ldapi:// listener. For a
description of SSF values, see olcSaslSecProps's minssf option
description. The default is 71.
olcLogFile: <filename>
Specify a file for recording slapd debug messages. These
messages are unrelated to messages exposed by the olcLogLevel
configuration parameter. This setting only affects the slapd
daemon and has no effect on the command line tools. By default
these messages only go to stderr and are not recorded anywhere
else. Specifying a logfile copies messages to both stderr and
the logfile.
olcLogFileFormat: debug|syslog-utc|syslog-localtime|rfc3339-utc
Specify the prefix format for messages written to the logfile.
The debug format is the normal format used for slapd debug
messages, with a timestamp in hexadecimal, followed by a thread
ID. The other options are to use syslog(3) style prefixes, with
timestamps either in UTC or in the local timezone. The default
is debug format.
olcLogFileOnly: TRUE | FALSE
Specify that debug messages should only go to the configured
logfile, and not to stderr.
olcLogFileRotate: <max> <Mbytes> <hours>
Specify automatic rotation for the configured logfile as the
maximum number of old logfiles to retain, a maximum size in
megabytes to allow a logfile to grow before rotation, and a
maximum age in hours for a logfile to be used before rotation.
The maximum number must be in the range 1-99. Setting Mbytes or
hours to zero disables the size or age check, respectively. At
least one of Mbytes or hours must be non-zero. By default no
automatic rotation will be performed.
olcLogLevel: <integer> [...]
Specify the level at which debugging statements and operation
statistics should be syslogged (currently logged to the
syslogd(8) LOG_LOCAL4 facility). They must be considered
subsystems rather than increasingly verbose log levels. Some
messages with higher priority are logged regardless of the
configured loglevel as soon as any logging is configured. Log
levels are additive, and available levels are:
1 (0x1 trace) trace function calls
2 (0x2 packets) debug packet handling
4 (0x4 args) heavy trace debugging (function args)
8 (0x8 conns) connection management
16 (0x10 BER) print out packets sent and received
32 (0x20 filter) search filter processing
64 (0x40 config) configuration file processing
128 (0x80 ACL) access control list processing
256 (0x100 stats) connections, LDAP operations,
results (recommended)
512 (0x200 stats2) stats2 log entries sent
1024 (0x400 shell) print communication with shell
backends
2048 (0x800 parse) entry parsing
16384 (0x4000 sync) LDAPSync replication
32768 (0x8000 none) only messages that get logged
whatever log level is set
The desired log level can be input as a single integer that
combines the (ORed) desired levels, both in decimal or in
hexadecimal notation, as a list of integers (that are ORed
internally), or as a list of the names that are shown between
parenthesis, such that
olcLogLevel: 129
olcLogLevel: 0x81
olcLogLevel: 128 1
olcLogLevel: 0x80 0x1
olcLogLevel: acl trace
are equivalent. The keyword any can be used as a shortcut to
enable logging at all levels (equivalent to -1). The keyword
none, or the equivalent integer representation, causes those
messages that are logged regardless of the configured
olcLogLevel to be logged. In fact, if no olcLogLevel (or a 0
level) is defined, no logging occurs, so at least the none level
is required to have high priority messages logged.
Note that the packets, BER, and parse levels are only available
as debug output on stderr, and are not sent to syslog.
This setting defaults to stats. This level should usually also
be included when using other loglevels, to help analyze the
logs.
olcMaxFilterDepth: <integer>
Specify the maximum depth of nested filters in search requests.
The default is 1000.
olcPasswordCryptSaltFormat: <format>
Specify the format of the salt passed to crypt(3) when
generating {CRYPT} passwords (see olcPasswordHash) during
processing of LDAP Password Modify Extended Operations (RFC
3062).
This string needs to be in sprintf(3) format and may include one
(and only one) %s conversion. This conversion will be
substituted with a string of random characters from
[A-Za-z0-9./]. For example, "%.2s" provides a two character
salt and "$1$%.8s" tells some versions of crypt(3) to use an MD5
algorithm and provides 8 random characters of salt. The default
is "%s", which provides 31 characters of salt.
olcPidFile: <filename>
The (absolute) name of a file that will hold the slapd server's
process ID (see getpid(2)).
olcPluginLogFile: <filename>
The ( absolute ) name of a file that will contain log messages
from SLAPI plugins. See slapd.plugin(5) for details.
olcReferral: <url>
Specify the referral to pass back when slapd(8) cannot find a
local database to handle a request. If multiple values are
specified, each url is provided.
olcReverseLookup: TRUE | FALSE
Enable/disable client name unverified reverse lookup (default is
FALSE if compiled with --enable-rlookups).
olcRootDSE: <file>
Specify the name of an LDIF(5) file containing user defined
attributes for the root DSE. These attributes are returned in
addition to the attributes normally produced by slapd.
The root DSE is an entry with information about the server and
its capabilities, in operational attributes. It has the empty
DN, and can be read with e.g.:
ldapsearch -x -b "" -s base "+"
See RFC 4512 section 5.1 for details.
olcSaslAuxprops: <plugin> [...]
Specify which auxprop plugins to use for authentication lookups.
The default is empty, which just uses slapd's internal support.
Usually no other auxprop plugins are needed.
olcSaslAuxpropsDontUseCopy: <attr> [...]
Specify which attribute(s) should be subject to the don't use
copy control. This is necessary for some SASL mechanisms such as
OTP to work in a replicated environment. The attribute
"cmusaslsecretOTP" is the default value.
olcSaslAuxpropsDontUseCopyIgnore TRUE | FALSE
Used to disable replication of the attribute(s) defined by
olcSaslAuxpropsDontUseCopy and instead use a local value for the
attribute. This allows the SASL mechanism to continue to work if
the provider is offline. This can cause replication
inconsistency. Defaults to FALSE.
olcSaslHost: <fqdn>
Used to specify the fully qualified domain name used for SASL
processing.
olcSaslRealm: <realm>
Specify SASL realm. Default is empty.
olcSaslCbinding: none | tls-unique | tls-endpoint
Specify the channel-binding type, see also
LDAP_OPT_X_SASL_CBINDING. Default is none.
olcSaslSecProps: <properties>
Used to specify Cyrus SASL security properties. The none flag
(without any other properties) causes the flag properties
default, "noanonymous,noplain", to be cleared. The noplain flag
disables mechanisms susceptible to simple passive attacks. The
noactive flag disables mechanisms susceptible to active attacks.
The nodict flag disables mechanisms susceptible to passive
dictionary attacks. The noanonymous flag disables mechanisms
which support anonymous login. The forwardsec flag require
forward secrecy between sessions. The passcred require
mechanisms which pass client credentials (and allow mechanisms
which can pass credentials to do so). The minssf=<factor>
property specifies the minimum acceptable security strength
factor as an integer approximate to effective key length used
for encryption. 0 (zero) implies no protection, 1 implies
integrity protection only, 128 allows RC4, Blowfish and other
similar ciphers, 256 will require modern ciphers. The default
is 0. The maxssf=<factor> property specifies the maximum
acceptable security strength factor as an integer (see minssf
description). The default is INT_MAX. The maxbufsize=<size>
property specifies the maximum security layer receive buffer
size allowed. 0 disables security layers. The default is
65536.
olcServerID: <integer> [<URL>]
Specify an integer ID from 0 to 4095 for this server. The ID may
also be specified as a hexadecimal ID by prefixing the value
with "0x". Non-zero IDs are required when using multi-provider
replication and each provider must have a unique non-zero ID.
Note that this requirement also applies to separate providers
contributing to a glued set of databases. If the URL is
provided, this directive may be specified multiple times,
providing a complete list of participating servers and their
IDs. The fully qualified hostname of each server should be used
in the supplied URLs. The IDs are used in the "replica id" field
of all CSNs generated by the specified server. The default value
is zero, which is only valid for single provider replication.
Example:
olcServerID: 1 ldap://ldap1.example.com
olcServerID: 2 ldap://ldap2.example.com
olcSockbufMaxIncoming: <integer>
Specify the maximum incoming LDAP PDU size for anonymous
sessions. The default is 262143.
olcSockbufMaxIncomingAuth: <integer>
Specify the maximum incoming LDAP PDU size for authenticated
sessions. The default is 4194303.
olcTCPBuffer [listener=<URL>] [{read|write}=]<size>
Specify the size of the TCP buffer. A global value for both
read and write TCP buffers related to any listener is defined,
unless the listener is explicitly specified, or either the read
or write qualifiers are used. See tcp(7) for details. Note
that some OS-es implement automatic TCP buffer tuning.
olcThreads: <integer>
Specify the maximum size of the primary thread pool. The
default is 16; the minimum value is 2.
olcThreadQueues: <integer>
Specify the number of work queues to use for the primary thread
pool. The default is 1 and this is typically adequate for up to
8 CPU cores. The value should not exceed the number of CPUs in
the system.
olcToolThreads: <integer>
Specify the maximum number of threads to use in tool mode. This
should not be greater than the number of CPUs in the system.
The default is 1.
olcWriteTimeout: <integer>
Specify the number of seconds to wait before forcibly closing a
connection with an outstanding write. This allows recovery from
various network hang conditions. A setting of 0 disables this
feature. The default is 0.
TLS OPTIONS
If slapd is built with support for Transport Layer Security, there are
more options you can specify.
olcTLSCipherSuite: <cipher-suite-spec>
Permits configuring what ciphers will be accepted and the
preference order. <cipher-suite-spec> should be a cipher
specification for the TLS library in use (OpenSSL or GnuTLS).
Example:
OpenSSL:
olcTLSCipherSuite: HIGH:MEDIUM:+SSLv2
GnuTLS:
olcTLSCiphersuite: SECURE256:!AES-128-CBC
To check what ciphers a given spec selects in OpenSSL, use:
openssl ciphers -v <cipher-suite-spec>
With GnuTLS the available specs can be found in the manual page
of gnutls-cli(1) (see the description of the option --priority).
In older versions of GnuTLS, where gnutls-cli does not support
the option --priority, you can obtain the -- more limited --
list of ciphers by calling:
gnutls-cli -l
olcTLSCACertificateFile: <filename>
Specifies the file that contains certificates for all of the
Certificate Authorities that slapd will recognize. The
certificate for the CA that signed the server certificate must
be included among these certificates. If the signing CA was not
a top-level (root) CA, certificates for the entire sequence of
CA's from the signing CA to the top-level CA should be present.
Multiple certificates are simply appended to the file; the order
is not significant.
olcTLSCACertificatePath: <path>
Specifies the path of directories that contain Certificate
Authority certificates in separate individual files. Usually
only one of this or the olcTLSCACertificateFile is defined. If
both are specified, both locations will be used. Multiple
directories may be specified, separated by a semi-colon.
olcTLSCACertificate: <CA cert>
Stores a single CA certificate that will be trusted by the
server, in DER format. If this option is set, the
olcTLSCACertificateFile and olcTLSCACertificatePath options are
ignored. If multiple CA certificates are required, the
olcTLSCACertificateFile or olcTLSCACertificatePath options must
be used instead of this option.
olcTLSCertificateFile: <filename>
Specifies the file that contains the slapd server certificate.
When using OpenSSL that file may also contain any number of
intermediate certificates after the server certificate.
olcTLSCertificate: <cert>
Stores a single certificate for the server, in DER format. If
this option is used, the olcTLSCertificateFile option is
ignored.
olcTLSCertificateKeyFile: <filename>
Specifies the file that contains the slapd server private key
that matches the specified server certificate. If the private
key file is protected with a password, the password must be
manually typed in when slapd starts. Usually the private key is
not protected with a password, to allow slapd to start without
manual intervention, so it is of critical importance that the
file is protected carefully.
olcTLSCertificateKey <key>
Stores the private key that matches the server certificate. If
this option is used, the olcTLSCertificateKeyFile option is
ignored.
olcTLSDHParamFile: <filename>
This directive specifies the file that contains parameters for
Diffie-Hellman ephemeral key exchange. This is required in
order to use a DSA certificate on the server, or an RSA
certificate missing the "key encipherment" key usage. Note that
setting this option may also enable Anonymous Diffie-Hellman key
exchanges in certain non-default cipher suites. Anonymous key
exchanges should generally be avoided since they provide no
actual client or server authentication and provide no protection
against man-in-the-middle attacks. You should append "!ADH" to
your cipher suites to ensure that these suites are not used.
olcTLSECName: <name>
Specify the name of the curve(s) to use for Elliptic curve
Diffie-Hellman ephemeral key exchange. This option is only used
for OpenSSL. This option is not used with GnuTLS; the curves
may be chosen in the GnuTLS ciphersuite specification.
olcTLSProtocolMin: <major>[.<minor>]
Specifies minimum SSL/TLS protocol version that will be
negotiated. If the server doesn't support at least that
version, the SSL handshake will fail. To require TLS 1.x or
higher, set this option to 3.(x+1), e.g.,
olcTLSProtocolMin: 3.2
would require TLS 1.1. Specifying a minimum that is higher than
that supported by the OpenLDAP implementation will result in it
requiring the highest level that it does support. This
directive is ignored with GnuTLS.
olcTLSRandFile: <filename>
Specifies the file to obtain random bits from when
/dev/[u]random is not available. Generally set to the name of
the EGD/PRNGD socket. The environment variable RANDFILE can
also be used to specify the filename. This directive is ignored
with GnuTLS.
olcTLSVerifyClient: <level>
Specifies what checks to perform on client certificates in an
incoming TLS session, if any. The <level> can be specified as
one of the following keywords:
never This is the default. slapd will not ask the client for a
certificate.
allow The client certificate is requested. If no certificate
is provided, the session proceeds normally. If a bad
certificate is provided, it will be ignored and the
session proceeds normally.
try The client certificate is requested. If no certificate
is provided, the session proceeds normally. If a bad
certificate is provided, the session is immediately
terminated.
demand | hard | true
These keywords are all equivalent, for compatibility
reasons. The client certificate is requested. If no
certificate is provided, or a bad certificate is
provided, the session is immediately terminated.
Note that a valid client certificate is required in order
to use the SASL EXTERNAL authentication mechanism with a
TLS session. As such, a non-default olcTLSVerifyClient
setting must be chosen to enable SASL EXTERNAL
authentication.
olcTLSCRLCheck: <level>
Specifies if the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) of the CA
should be used to verify if the client certificates have not
been revoked. This requires olcTLSCACertificatePath parameter to
be set. This parameter is ignored with GnuTLS. <level> can be
specified as one of the following keywords:
none No CRL checks are performed
peer Check the CRL of the peer certificate
all Check the CRL for a whole certificate chain
olcTLSCRLFile: <filename>
Specifies a file containing a Certificate Revocation List to be
used for verifying that certificates have not been revoked. This
parameter is only valid when using GnuTLS.
DYNAMIC MODULE OPTIONS
If slapd is compiled with --enable-modules then the module-related
entries will be available. These entries are named
cn=module{x},cn=config and must have the olcModuleList objectClass. One
entry should be created per olcModulePath. Normally the config engine
generates the "{x}" index in the RDN automatically, so it can be
omitted when initially loading these entries.
olcModuleLoad: <filename> [<arguments>...]
Specify the name of a dynamically loadable module to load and
any additional arguments if supported by the module. The
filename may be an absolute path name or a simple filename. Non-
absolute names are searched for in the directories specified by
the olcModulePath option.
olcModulePath: <pathspec>
Specify a list of directories to search for loadable modules.
Typically the path is colon-separated but this depends on the
operating system. The default is /opt/local/libexec/openldap,
which is where the standard OpenLDAP install will place its
modules.
SCHEMA OPTIONS
Schema definitions are created as entries in the cn=schema,cn=config
subtree. These entries must have the olcSchemaConfig objectClass. As
noted above, the actual cn=schema,cn=config entry is predefined and any
values specified for it are ignored.
olcAttributetypes: ( <oid> [NAME <name>] [DESC <description>]
[OBSOLETE] [SUP <oid>] [EQUALITY <oid>] [ORDERING <oid>]
[SUBSTR <oid>] [SYNTAX <oidlen>] [SINGLE-VALUE] [COLLECTIVE]
[NO-USER-MODIFICATION] [USAGE <attributeUsage>] )
Specify an attribute type using the LDAPv3 syntax defined in RFC
4512. The slapd parser extends the RFC 4512 definition by
allowing string forms as well as numeric OIDs to be used for the
attribute OID and attribute syntax OID. (See the
olcObjectIdentifier description.)
olcDitContentRules: ( <oid> [NAME <name>] [DESC <description>]
[OBSOLETE] [AUX <oids>] [MUST <oids>] [MAY <oids>]
[NOT <oids>] )
Specify an DIT Content Rule using the LDAPv3 syntax defined in
RFC 4512. The slapd parser extends the RFC 4512 definition by
allowing string forms as well as numeric OIDs to be used for the
attribute OID and attribute syntax OID. (See the
olcObjectIdentifier description.)
olcLdapSyntaxes ( <oid> [DESC <description>] [X-SUBST
<substitute-syntax>] )
Specify an LDAP syntax using the LDAPv3 syntax defined in RFC
4512. The slapd parser extends the RFC 4512 definition by
allowing string forms as well as numeric OIDs to be used for the
syntax OID. (See the objectidentifier description.) The slapd
parser also honors the X-SUBST extension (an OpenLDAP-specific
extension), which allows one to use the olcLdapSyntaxes
attribute to define a non-implemented syntax along with another
syntax, the extension value substitute-syntax, as its temporary
replacement. The substitute-syntax must be defined. This
allows one to define attribute types that make use of non-
implemented syntaxes using the correct syntax OID. Unless
X-SUBST is used, this configuration statement would result in an
error, since no handlers would be associated to the resulting
syntax structure.
olcObjectClasses: ( <oid> [NAME <name>] [DESC <description>] [OBSOLETE]
[SUP <oids>] [{ ABSTRACT | STRUCTURAL | AUXILIARY }]
[MUST <oids>] [MAY <oids>] )
Specify an objectclass using the LDAPv3 syntax defined in RFC
4512. The slapd parser extends the RFC 4512 definition by
allowing string forms as well as numeric OIDs to be used for the
object class OID. (See the olcObjectIdentifier description.)
Object classes are "STRUCTURAL" by default.
olcObjectIdentifier: <name> { <oid> | <name>[:<suffix>] }
Define a string name that equates to the given OID. The string
can be used in place of the numeric OID in objectclass and
attribute definitions. The name can also be used with a suffix
of the form ":xx" in which case the value "oid.xx" will be used.
GENERAL BACKEND OPTIONS
Options in these entries only apply to the configuration of a single
type of backend. All backends may support this class of options, but
currently only back-mdb does. The entry must be named
olcBackend=<databasetype>,cn=config and must have the olcBackendConfig
objectClass. <databasetype> should be one of asyncmeta, config,
dnssrv, ldap, ldif, mdb, meta, monitor, null, passwd, perl, relay,
sock, sql, or wt. At present, only back-mdb implements any options of
this type, so this entry should not be used for any other backends.
DATABASE OPTIONS
Database options are set in entries named
olcDatabase={x}<databasetype>,cn=config and must have the
olcDatabaseConfig objectClass. Normally the config engine generates the
"{x}" index in the RDN automatically, so it can be omitted when
initially loading these entries.
The special frontend database is always numbered "{-1}" and the config
database is always numbered "{0}".
GLOBAL DATABASE OPTIONS
Options in this section may be set in the special "frontend" database
and inherited in all the other databases. These options may be altered
by further settings in each specific database. The frontend entry must
be named olcDatabase=frontend,cn=config and must have the
olcFrontendConfig objectClass.
olcAccess: to <what> [ by <who> <access> <control> ]+
Grant access (specified by <access>) to a set of entries and/or
attributes (specified by <what>) by one or more requestors
(specified by <who>). If no access controls are present, the
default policy allows anyone and everyone to read anything but
restricts updates to rootdn. (e.g., "olcAccess: to * by *
read"). See slapd.access(5) and the "OpenLDAP Administrator's
Guide" for details.
Access controls set in the frontend are appended to any access
controls set on the specific databases. The rootdn of a
database can always read and write EVERYTHING in that database.
Extra special care must be taken with the access controls on the
config database. Unlike other databases, the default policy for
the config database is to only allow access to the rootdn.
Regular users should not have read access, and write access
should be granted very carefully to privileged administrators.
olcDefaultSearchBase: <dn>
Specify a default search base to use when client submits a non-
base search request with an empty base DN. Base scoped search
requests with an empty base DN are not affected. This setting
is only allowed in the frontend entry.
olcExtraAttrs: <attr>
Lists what attributes need to be added to search requests.
Local storage backends return the entire entry to the frontend.
The frontend takes care of only returning the requested
attributes that are allowed by ACLs. However, features like
access checking and so may need specific attributes that are not
automatically returned by remote storage backends, like proxy
backends and so on. <attr> is an attribute that is needed for
internal purposes and thus always needs to be collected, even
when not explicitly requested by clients. This attribute is
multi-valued.
olcPasswordHash: <hash> [<hash>...]
This option configures one or more hashes to be used in
generation of user passwords stored in the userPassword
attribute during processing of LDAP Password Modify Extended
Operations (RFC 3062). The <hash> must be one of {SSHA}, {SHA},
{SMD5}, {MD5}, {CRYPT}, and {CLEARTEXT}. The default is {SSHA}.
{SHA} and {SSHA} use the SHA-1 algorithm (FIPS 160-1), the
latter with a seed.
{MD5} and {SMD5} use the MD5 algorithm (RFC 1321), the latter
with a seed.
{CRYPT} uses the crypt(3).
{CLEARTEXT} indicates that the new password should be added to
userPassword as clear text.
Note that this option does not alter the normal user
applications handling of userPassword during LDAP Add, Modify,
or other LDAP operations. This setting is only allowed in the
frontend entry.
olcReadOnly: TRUE | FALSE
This option puts the database into "read-only" mode. Any
attempts to modify the database will return an "unwilling to
perform" error. By default, olcReadOnly is FALSE. Note that
when this option is set TRUE on the frontend, it cannot be reset
without restarting the server, since further writes to the
config database will be rejected.
olcRequires: <conditions>
Specify a set of conditions to require (default none). The
directive may be specified globally and/or per-database;
databases inherit global conditions, so per-database
specifications are additive. bind requires bind operation prior
to directory operations. LDAPv3 requires session to be using
LDAP version 3. authc requires authentication prior to
directory operations. SASL requires SASL authentication prior
to directory operations. strong requires strong authentication
prior to directory operations. The strong keyword allows
protected "simple" authentication as well as SASL
authentication. none may be used to require no conditions
(useful to clear out globally set conditions within a particular
database); it must occur first in the list of conditions.
olcRestrict: <oplist>
Specify a list of operations that are restricted. Restrictions
on a specific database override any frontend setting.
Operations can be any of add, bind, compare, delete,
extended[=<OID>], modify, rename, search, or the special pseudo-
operations read and write, which respectively summarize read and
write operations. The use of restrict write is equivalent to
olcReadOnly: TRUE (see above). The extended keyword allows one
to indicate the OID of the specific operation to be restricted.
olcSchemaDN: <dn>
Specify the distinguished name for the subschema subentry that
controls the entries on this server. The default is
"cn=Subschema".
olcSecurity: <factors>
Specify a set of security strength factors (separated by white
space) to require (see olcSaslSecprops's minssf option for a
description of security strength factors). The directive may be
specified globally and/or per-database. ssf=<n> specifies the
overall security strength factor. transport=<n> specifies the
transport security strength factor. tls=<n> specifies the TLS
security strength factor. sasl=<n> specifies the SASL security
strength factor. update_ssf=<n> specifies the overall security
strength factor to require for directory updates.
update_transport=<n> specifies the transport security strength
factor to require for directory updates. update_tls=<n>
specifies the TLS security strength factor to require for
directory updates. update_sasl=<n> specifies the SASL security
strength factor to require for directory updates.
simple_bind=<n> specifies the security strength factor required
for simple username/password authentication. Note that the
transport factor is measure of security provided by the
underlying transport, e.g. ldapi:// (and eventually IPSEC). It
is not normally used.
olcSizeLimit: {<integer>|unlimited}
olcSizeLimit: size[.{soft|hard}]=<integer> [...]
Specify the maximum number of entries to return from a search
operation. The default size limit is 500. Use unlimited to
specify no limits. The second format allows a fine grain
setting of the size limits. If no special qualifiers are
specified, both soft and hard limits are set. Extra args can be
added in the same value. Additional qualifiers are available;
see olcLimits for an explanation of all of the different flags.
olcSortVals: <attr> [...]
Specify a list of multi-valued attributes whose values will
always be maintained in sorted order. Using this option will
allow Modify, Compare, and filter evaluations on these
attributes to be performed more efficiently. The resulting sort
order depends on the attributes' syntax and matching rules and
may not correspond to lexical order or any other recognizable
order. This setting is only allowed in the frontend entry.
olcTimeLimit: {<integer>|unlimited}
olcTimeLimit: time[.{soft|hard}]=<integer> [...]
Specify the maximum number of seconds (in real time) slapd will
spend answering a search request. The default time limit is
3600. Use unlimited to specify no limits. The second format
allows a fine grain setting of the time limits. Extra args can
be added in the same value. See olcLimits for an explanation of
the different flags.
GENERAL DATABASE OPTIONS
Options in this section only apply to the specific database for which
they are defined. They are supported by every type of backend. All of
the Global Database Options may also be used here.
olcAddContentAcl: TRUE | FALSE
Controls whether Add operations will perform ACL checks on the
content of the entry being added. This check is off by default.
See the slapd.access(5) manual page for more details on ACL
requirements for Add operations.
olcHidden: TRUE | FALSE
Controls whether the database will be used to answer queries. A
database that is hidden will never be selected to answer any
queries, and any suffix configured on the database will be
ignored in checks for conflicts with other databases. By
default, olcHidden is FALSE.
olcLastMod: TRUE | FALSE
Controls whether slapd will automatically maintain the
modifiersName, modifyTimestamp, creatorsName, and
createTimestamp attributes for entries. It also controls the
entryCSN and entryUUID attributes, which are needed by the
syncrepl provider. By default, olcLastMod is TRUE.
olcLastBind: TRUE | FALSE
Controls whether slapd will automatically maintain the
pwdLastSuccess attribute for entries. By default, olcLastBind is
FALSE.
olcLastBindPrecision: <integer>
If olcLastBind is enabled, specifies how frequently
pwdLastSuccess will be updated. More than integer seconds must
have passed since the last successful bind. In a replicated
environment with frequent bind activity it may be useful to set
this to a large value.
olcLimits: <selector> <limit> [<limit> [...]]
Specify time and size limits based on the operation's initiator
or base DN. The argument <selector> can be any of
anonymous | users | [<dnspec>=]<pattern> |
group[/oc[/at]]=<pattern>
with
<dnspec> ::= dn[.<type>][.<style>]
<type> ::= self | this
<style> ::= exact | base | onelevel | subtree | children
| regex | anonymous
DN type self is the default and means the bound user, while this
means the base DN of the operation. The term anonymous matches
all unauthenticated clients. The term users matches all
authenticated clients; otherwise an exact dn pattern is assumed
unless otherwise specified by qualifying the (optional) key
string dn with exact or base (which are synonyms), to require an
exact match; with onelevel, to require exactly one level of
depth match; with subtree, to allow any level of depth match,
including the exact match; with children, to allow any level of
depth match, not including the exact match; regex explicitly
requires the (default) match based on POSIX (''extended'')
regular expression pattern. Finally, anonymous matches unbound
operations; the pattern field is ignored. The same behavior is
obtained by using the anonymous form of the <selector> clause.
The term group, with the optional objectClass oc and
attributeType at fields, followed by pattern, sets the limits
for any DN listed in the values of the at attribute (default
member) of the oc group objectClass (default groupOfNames) whose
DN exactly matches pattern.
The currently supported limits are size and time.
The syntax for time limits is time[.{soft|hard}]=<integer>,
where integer is the number of seconds slapd will spend
answering a search request. If no time limit is explicitly
requested by the client, the soft limit is used; if the
requested time limit exceeds the hard limit, the value of the
limit is used instead. If the hard limit is set to the keyword
soft, the soft limit is used in either case; if it is set to the
keyword unlimited, no hard limit is enforced. Explicit requests
for time limits smaller or equal to the hard limit are honored.
If no limit specifier is set, the value is assigned to the soft
limit, and the hard limit is set to soft, to preserve the
original behavior.
The syntax for size limits is
size[.{soft|hard|unchecked}]=<integer>, where integer is the
maximum number of entries slapd will return answering a search
request. If no size limit is explicitly requested by the
client, the soft limit is used; if the requested size limit
exceeds the hard limit, the value of the limit is used instead.
If the hard limit is set to the keyword soft, the soft limit is
used in either case; if it is set to the keyword unlimited, no
hard limit is enforced. Explicit requests for size limits
smaller or equal to the hard limit are honored. The unchecked
specifier sets a limit on the number of candidates a search
request is allowed to examine. The rationale behind it is that
searches for non-properly indexed attributes may result in large
sets of candidates, which must be examined by slapd(8) to
determine whether they match the search filter or not. The
unchecked limit provides a means to drop such operations before
they are even started. If the selected candidates exceed the
unchecked limit, the search will abort with Unwilling to
perform. If it is set to the keyword unlimited, no limit is
applied (the default). If it is set to disabled, the search is
not even performed; this can be used to disallow searches for a
specific set of users. If no limit specifier is set, the value
is assigned to the soft limit, and the hard limit is set to
soft, to preserve the original behavior.
In case of no match, the global limits are used. The default
values are the same as for olcSizeLimit and olcTimeLimit; no
limit is set on unchecked.
If pagedResults control is requested, the hard size limit is
used by default, because the request of a specific page size is
considered an explicit request for a limitation on the number of
entries to be returned. However, the size limit applies to the
total count of entries returned within the search, and not to a
single page. Additional size limits may be enforced; the syntax
is size.pr={<integer>|noEstimate|unlimited}, where integer is
the max page size if no explicit limit is set; the keyword
noEstimate inhibits the server from returning an estimate of the
total number of entries that might be returned (note: the
current implementation does not return any estimate). The
keyword unlimited indicates that no limit is applied to the
pagedResults control page size. The syntax
size.prtotal={<integer>|hard|unlimited|disabled} allows one to
set a limit on the total number of entries that the pagedResults
control will return. By default it is set to the hard limit
which will use the size.hard value. When set, integer is the
max number of entries that the whole search with pagedResults
control can return. Use unlimited to allow unlimited number of
entries to be returned, e.g. to allow the use of the
pagedResults control as a means to circumvent size limitations
on regular searches; the keyword disabled disables the control,
i.e. no paged results can be returned. Note that the total
number of entries returned when the pagedResults control is
requested cannot exceed the hard size limit of regular searches
unless extended by the prtotal switch.
The olcLimits statement is typically used to let an unlimited
number of entries be returned by searches performed with the
identity used by the consumer for synchronization purposes by
means of the RFC 4533 LDAP Content Synchronization protocol (see
olcSyncrepl for details).
When using subordinate databases, it is necessary for any limits
that are to be applied across the parent and its subordinates to
be defined in both the parent and its subordinates. Otherwise
the settings on the subordinate databases are not honored.
olcMaxDerefDepth: <depth>
Specifies the maximum number of aliases to dereference when
trying to resolve an entry, used to avoid infinite alias loops.
The default is 15.
olcMultiProvider: TRUE | FALSE
This option puts a consumer database into Multi-Provider mode.
Update operations will be accepted from any user, not just the
updatedn. The database must already be configured as a syncrepl
consumer before this keyword may be set. This mode also requires
a olcServerID (see above) to be configured. By default, this
setting is FALSE.
olcMonitoring: TRUE | FALSE
This option enables database-specific monitoring in the entry
related to the current database in the "cn=Databases,cn=Monitor"
subtree of the monitor database, if the monitor database is
enabled. Currently, only the MDB database provides database-
specific monitoring. If monitoring is supported by the backend
it defaults to TRUE, otherwise FALSE.
olcPlugin: <plugin_type> <lib_path> <init_function> [<arguments>]
Configure a SLAPI plugin. See the slapd.plugin(5) manpage for
more details.
olcRootDN: <dn>
Specify the distinguished name that is not subject to access
control or administrative limit restrictions for operations on
this database. This DN may or may not be associated with an
entry. An empty root DN (the default) specifies no root access
is to be granted. It is recommended that the rootdn only be
specified when needed (such as when initially populating a
database). If the rootdn is within a namingContext (suffix) of
the database, a simple bind password may also be provided using
the olcRootPW directive. Many optional features, including
syncrepl, require the rootdn to be defined for the database.
The olcRootDN of the cn=config database defaults to cn=config
itself.
olcRootPW: <password>
Specify a password (or hash of the password) for the rootdn.
The password can only be set if the rootdn is within the
namingContext (suffix) of the database. This option accepts all
RFC 2307 userPassword formats known to the server (see
olcPasswordHash description) as well as cleartext.
slappasswd(8) may be used to generate a hash of a password.
Cleartext and {CRYPT} passwords are not recommended. If empty
(the default), authentication of the root DN is by other means
(e.g. SASL). Use of SASL is encouraged.
olcSubordinate: [TRUE | FALSE | advertise]
Specify that the current backend database is a subordinate of
another backend database. A subordinate database may have only
one suffix. This option may be used to glue multiple databases
into a single namingContext. If the suffix of the current
database is within the namingContext of a superior database,
searches against the superior database will be propagated to the
subordinate as well. All of the databases associated with a
single namingContext should have identical rootdns. Behavior of
other LDAP operations is unaffected by this setting. In
particular, it is not possible to use moddn to move an entry
from one subordinate to another subordinate within the
namingContext.
If the optional advertise flag is supplied, the naming context
of this database is advertised in the root DSE. The default is
to hide this database context, so that only the superior context
is visible.
If the slap tools slapcat(8), slapadd(8), slapmodify(8), or
slapindex(8) are used on the superior database, any glued
subordinates that support these tools are opened as well.
Databases that are glued together should usually be configured
with the same indices (assuming they support indexing), even for
attributes that only exist in some of these databases. In
general, all of the glued databases should be configured as
similarly as possible, since the intent is to provide the
appearance of a single directory.
Note that the subordinate functionality is implemented
internally by the glue overlay and as such its behavior will
interact with other overlays in use. By default, the glue
overlay is automatically configured as the last overlay on the
superior database. Its position on the database can be
explicitly configured by setting an overlay glue directive at
the desired position. This explicit configuration is necessary
e.g. when using the syncprov overlay, which needs to follow
glue in order to work over all of the glued databases. E.g.
dn: olcDatabase={1}mdb,cn=config
olcSuffix: dc=example,dc=com
...
dn: olcOverlay={0}glue,olcDatabase={1}mdb,cn=config
...
dn: olcOverlay={1}syncprov,olcDatabase={1}mdb,cn=config
...
See the Overlays section below for more details.
olcSuffix: <dn suffix>
Specify the DN suffix of queries that will be passed to this
backend database. Multiple suffix lines can be given and at
least one is required for each database definition.
If the suffix of one database is "inside" that of another, the
database with the inner suffix must come first in the
configuration file. You may also want to glue such databases
together with the olcSubordinate attribute.
olcSyncUseSubentry: TRUE | FALSE
Store the syncrepl contextCSN in a subentry instead of the
context entry of the database. The subentry's RDN will be
"cn=ldapsync". The default is FALSE, meaning the contextCSN is
stored in the context entry.
olcSyncrepl: rid=<replica ID> provider=ldap[s]://<hostname>[:port]
searchbase=<base DN> [type=refreshOnly|refreshAndPersist]
[interval=dd:hh:mm:ss] [retry=[<retry interval> <# of
retries>]+] [filter=<filter str>] [scope=sub|one|base|subord]
[attrs=<attr list>] [exattrs=<attr list>] [attrsonly]
[sizelimit=<limit>] [timelimit=<limit>] [schemachecking=on|off]
[network-timeout=<seconds>] [timeout=<seconds>]
[tcp-user-timeout=<milliseconds>] [bindmethod=simple|sasl]
[binddn=<dn>] [saslmech=<mech>] [authcid=<identity>]
[authzid=<identity>] [credentials=<passwd>] [realm=<realm>]
[secprops=<properties>] [keepalive=<idle>:<probes>:<interval>]
[starttls=yes|critical] [tls_cert=<file>] [tls_key=<file>]
[tls_cacert=<file>] [tls_cacertdir=<path>]
[tls_reqcert=never|allow|try|demand]
[tls_reqsan=never|allow|try|demand] [tls_cipher_suite=<ciphers>]
[tls_ecname=<names>] [tls_crlcheck=none|peer|all]
[tls_protocol_min=<major>[.<minor>]] [suffixmassage=<real DN>]
[logbase=<base DN>] [logfilter=<filter str>]
[syncdata=default|accesslog|changelog] [lazycommit]
Specify the current database as a consumer which is kept up-to-
date with the provider content by establishing the current
slapd(8) as a replication consumer site running a syncrepl
replication engine. The consumer content is kept synchronized
to the provider content using the LDAP Content Synchronization
protocol. Refer to the "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" for
detailed information on setting up a replicated slapd directory
service using the syncrepl replication engine.
rid identifies the current syncrepl directive within the
replication consumer site. It is a non-negative integer not
greater than 999 (limited to three decimal digits).
provider specifies the replication provider site containing the
provider content as an LDAP URI. If <port> is not given, the
standard LDAP port number (389 or 636) is used.
The content of the syncrepl consumer is defined using a search
specification as its result set. The consumer slapd will send
search requests to the provider slapd according to the search
specification. The search specification includes searchbase,
scope, filter, attrs, attrsonly, sizelimit, and timelimit
parameters as in the normal search specification. The exattrs
option may also be used to specify attributes that should be
omitted from incoming entries. The scope defaults to sub, the
filter defaults to (objectclass=*), and there is no default
searchbase. The attrs list defaults to "*,+" to return all user
and operational attributes, and attrsonly and exattrs are unset
by default. The sizelimit and timelimit only accept "unlimited"
and positive integers, and both default to "unlimited". The
sizelimit and timelimit parameters define a consumer requested
limitation on the number of entries that can be returned by the
LDAP Content Synchronization operation; these should be left
unchanged from the default otherwise replication may never
succeed. Note, however, that any provider-side limits for the
replication identity will be enforced by the provider regardless
of the limits requested by the LDAP Content Synchronization
operation, much like for any other search operation.
The LDAP Content Synchronization protocol has two operation
types. In the refreshOnly operation, the next synchronization
search operation is periodically rescheduled at an interval time
(specified by interval parameter; 1 day by default) after each
synchronization operation finishes. In the refreshAndPersist
operation, a synchronization search remains persistent in the
provider slapd. Further updates to the provider will generate
searchResultEntry to the consumer slapd as the search responses
to the persistent synchronization search. If the initial search
fails due to an error, the next synchronization search operation
is periodically rescheduled at an interval time (specified by
interval parameter; 1 day by default)
If an error occurs during replication, the consumer will attempt
to reconnect according to the retry parameter which is a list of
the <retry interval> and <# of retries> pairs. For example,
retry="60 10 300 3" lets the consumer retry every 60 seconds for
the first 10 times and then retry every 300 seconds for the next
3 times before stop retrying. The `+' in <# of retries> means
indefinite number of retries until success. If no retry is
specified, by default syncrepl retries every hour forever.
The schema checking can be enforced at the LDAP Sync consumer
site by turning on the schemachecking parameter. The default is
off. Schema checking on means that replicated entries must have
a structural objectClass, must obey to objectClass requirements
in terms of required/allowed attributes, and that naming
attributes and distinguished values must be present. As a
consequence, schema checking should be off when partial
replication is used.
The network-timeout parameter sets how long the consumer will
wait to establish a network connection to the provider. Once a
connection is established, the timeout parameter determines how
long the consumer will wait for the initial Bind request to
complete. The defaults for these parameters come from
ldap.conf(5). The tcp-user-timeout parameter, if non-zero,
corresponds to the TCP_USER_TIMEOUT set on the target
connections, overriding the operating system setting. Only some
systems support the customization of this parameter, it is
ignored otherwise and system-wide settings are used.
A bindmethod of simple requires the options binddn and
credentials and should only be used when adequate security
services (e.g. TLS or IPSEC) are in place. REMEMBER: simple
bind credentials must be in cleartext! A bindmethod of sasl
requires the option saslmech. Depending on the mechanism, an
authentication identity and/or credentials can be specified
using authcid and credentials. The authzid parameter may be
used to specify an authorization identity. Specific security
properties (as with the sasl-secprops keyword above) for a SASL
bind can be set with the secprops option. A non default SASL
realm can be set with the realm option. The identity used for
synchronization by the consumer should be allowed to receive an
unlimited number of entries in response to a search request.
The provider, other than allowing authentication of the syncrepl
identity, should grant that identity appropriate access
privileges to the data that is being replicated (access
directive), and appropriate time and size limits. This can be
accomplished by either allowing unlimited sizelimit and
timelimit, or by setting an appropriate limits statement in the
consumer's configuration (see sizelimit and limits for details).
The keepalive parameter sets the values of idle, probes, and
interval used to check whether a socket is alive; idle is the
number of seconds a connection needs to remain idle before TCP
starts sending keepalive probes; probes is the maximum number of
keepalive probes TCP should send before dropping the connection;
interval is interval in seconds between individual keepalive
probes. Only some systems support the customization of these
values; the keepalive parameter is ignored otherwise, and
system-wide settings are used.
The starttls parameter specifies use of the StartTLS extended
operation to establish a TLS session before Binding to the
provider. If the critical argument is supplied, the session will
be aborted if the StartTLS request fails. Otherwise the syncrepl
session continues without TLS. The tls_reqcert setting defaults
to "demand", the tls_reqsan setting defaults to "allow", and the
other TLS settings default to the same as the main slapd TLS
settings.
The suffixmassage parameter allows the consumer to pull entries
from a remote directory whose DN suffix differs from the local
directory. The portion of the remote entries' DNs that matches
the searchbase will be replaced with the suffixmassage DN.
Rather than replicating whole entries, the consumer can query
logs of data modifications. This mode of operation is referred
to as delta syncrepl. In addition to the above parameters, the
logbase and logfilter parameters must be set appropriately for
the log that will be used. The syncdata parameter must be set to
either "accesslog" if the log conforms to the slapo-accesslog(5)
log format, or "changelog" if the log conforms to the obsolete
changelog format. If the syncdata parameter is omitted or set to
"default" then the log parameters are ignored.
The lazycommit parameter tells the underlying database that it
can store changes without performing a full flush after each
change. This may improve performance for the consumer, while
sacrificing safety or durability.
olcUpdateDN: <dn>
This option is only applicable in a replica database. It
specifies the DN permitted to update (subject to access
controls) the replica. It is only needed in certain push-mode
replication scenarios. Generally, this DN should not be the
same as the rootdn used at the provider.
olcUpdateRef: <url>
Specify the referral to pass back when slapd(8) is asked to
modify a replicated local database. If multiple values are
specified, each url is provided.
DATABASE-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
Each database may allow specific configuration options; they are
documented separately in the backends' manual pages. See the
slapd.backends(5) manual page for an overview of available backends.
OVERLAYS
An overlay is a piece of code that intercepts database operations in
order to extend or change them. Overlays are pushed onto a stack over
the database, and so they will execute in the reverse of the order in
which they were configured and the database itself will receive control
last of all.
Overlays must be configured as child entries of a specific database.
The entry's RDN must be of the form olcOverlay={x}<overlaytype> and the
entry must have the olcOverlayConfig objectClass. Normally the config
engine generates the "{x}" index in the RDN automatically, so it can be
omitted when initially loading these entries.
See the slapd.overlays(5) manual page for an overview of available
overlays.
EXAMPLES
Here is a short example of a configuration in LDIF suitable for use
with slapadd(8) :
dn: cn=config
objectClass: olcGlobal
cn: config
olcPidFile: /opt/local/var/run/slapd.pid
olcAttributeOptions: x-hidden lang-
dn: cn=schema,cn=config
objectClass: olcSchemaConfig
cn: schema
include: file:///opt/local/etc/openldap/schema/core.ldif
dn: olcDatabase=frontend,cn=config
objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
objectClass: olcFrontendConfig
olcDatabase: frontend
# Subtypes of "name" (e.g. "cn" and "ou") with the
# option ";x-hidden" can be searched for/compared,
# but are not shown. See slapd.access(5).
olcAccess: to attrs=name;x-hidden by * =cs
# Protect passwords. See slapd.access(5).
olcAccess: to attrs=userPassword by * auth
# Read access to other attributes and entries.
olcAccess: to * by * read
# set a rootpw for the config database so we can bind.
# deny access to everyone else.
dn: olcDatabase=config,cn=config
objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
olcDatabase: config
olcRootPW: {SSHA}XKYnrjvGT3wZFQrDD5040US592LxsdLy
olcAccess: to * by * none
dn: olcDatabase=mdb,cn=config
objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
objectClass: olcMdbConfig
olcDatabase: mdb
olcSuffix: "dc=our-domain,dc=com"
# The database directory MUST exist prior to
# running slapd AND should only be accessible
# by the slapd/tools. Mode 0700 recommended.
olcDbDirectory: /opt/local/var/openldap-data
# Indices to maintain
olcDbIndex: objectClass eq
olcDbIndex: cn,sn,mail pres,eq,approx,sub
# We serve small clients that do not handle referrals,
# so handle remote lookups on their behalf.
dn: olcDatabase=ldap,cn=config
objectClass: olcDatabaseConfig
objectClass: olcLdapConfig
olcDatabase: ldap
olcSuffix: ""
olcDbUri: ldap://ldap.some-server.com/
Assuming the above data was saved in a file named "config.ldif" and the
/opt/local/etc/openldap/slapd.d directory has been created, this
command will initialize the configuration:
slapadd -F /opt/local/etc/openldap/slapd.d -n 0 -l config.ldif
"OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" contains a longer annotated example of
a slapd configuration.
Alternatively, an existing slapd.conf file can be converted to the new
format using slapd or any of the slap tools:
slaptest -f /opt/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -F /opt/local/etc/openldap/slapd.d
FILES
/opt/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf
default slapd configuration file
/opt/local/etc/openldap/slapd.d
default slapd configuration directory
SEE ALSO
ldap(3), ldif(5), gnutls-cli(1), slapd.access(5), slapd.backends(5),
slapd.conf(5), slapd.overlays(5), slapd.plugin(5), slapd(8),
slapacl(8), slapadd(8), slapauth(8), slapcat(8), slapdn(8),
slapindex(8), slapmodify(8), slappasswd(8), slaptest(8).
"OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
OpenLDAP Software is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project
<http://www.openldap.org/>. OpenLDAP Software is derived from the
University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.
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