OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction to slapd and slurpd
1.1. What is a directory service?
1.2. What is LDAP?
1.3. How does LDAP work?
1.4. What is slapd and what can it do?
1.5. What about X.500?
1.6. What is slurpd and what can it do?

2. A Quick-Start Guide to Running slapd
3. The Big Picture - Configuration Choices
3.1. LDAP as a local service only
3.2. Local service with X.500 referrals
3.3. LDAP as a front end to X.500
3.4. Replicated slapd service

4. Building and Installing slapd & slurpd
4.1. Pre-Build Configuration
4.2. Making the Software
4.3. Installing the Software

5. The slapd Configuration File
5.1. Configuration File Format
5.2. Configuration File Options
5.3. Access Control
5.4. Who to grant access to
5.5. Schema Enforcement
5.6. Configuration File Example

6. Running slapd
6.1. Command-Line Options
6.2. Running slapd as a Stand-Alone Daemon
6.3. Running slapd from inetd

7. Monitoring Slapd
8. Database Creation and Maintenance Tools
8.1. Creating a database over LDAP
8.2. Creating a database off-line
8.3. The LDIF text entry format
8.4. Converting from QUIPU EDB format to LDIF format
8.5. The ldbmtest program
8.6. The LDBM database format

9. Performance Tuning
9.1. The allIDs threshold
9.2. The entry cache
9.3. The DB cache
9.4. Maintain the right indices

10. Distributing slapd DATA
11. Replication with slurpd
11.1. Overview
11.2. Replication Logs
11.3. Command-Line Options
11.4. Configuring slurpd and a slave slapd instance
11.5. Advanced slurpd Operation
11.6. Replication from a slapd directory server to an X.500 DSA

A. General Configure Instructions
B. OpenLDAP Software Copyrights
B.1. OpenLDAP Copyright
B.2. University of Michigan Copyright

C. The OpenLDAP Public License