OpenLDAP 2.0 Administrator's Guide

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction to OpenLDAP Directory Services
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
3. The Big Picture - Configuration Choices
3.1. Local Directory Service
3.2. Local Directory Service with Referrals
3.3. Replicated Directory Service
3.4. Distributed Local Directory Service

4. Building and Installing OpenLDAP Software
4.1. Obtaining and Extracting the Software
4.2. Prerequisite software
4.3. Running configure
4.4. Building the Software
4.5. Testing the Software
4.6. Installing the Software

5. The slapd Configuration File
5.1. Configuration File Format
5.2. Configuration File Directives
5.3. Access Control
5.4. Configuration File Example

6. Running slapd
6.1. Command-Line Options
6.2. Starting slapd
6.3. Stopping slapd

7. Database Creation and Maintenance Tools
7.1. Creating a database over LDAP
7.2. Creating a database off-line
7.3. The LDIF text entry format

8. Schema Specification
8.1. Distributed Schema Files
8.2. Extending Schema

9. Constructing a Distributed Directory Service
9.1. Subordinate Knowledge Information
9.2. Superior Knowledge Information
9.3. The ManageDsaIT Control

10. Replication with slurpd
10.1. Overview
10.2. Replication Logs
10.3. Command-Line Options
10.4. Configuring slurpd and a slave slapd instance
10.5. Advanced slurpd Operation

A. Generic configure Instructions
B. OpenLDAP Software Copyright Notices
B.1. OpenLDAP Copyright Notice
B.2. University of Michigan Copyright Notice

C. The OpenLDAP Public License