(Answer) (Category) OpenLDAP Faq-O-Matic : (Category) OpenLDAP Software FAQ : (Answer) What LDAPv3 features/extensions are supported by the OpenLDAP server?
OpenLDAP Software implements LDAPv3 (RFC 4510). See also: (Xref) What is LDAP?.
In addition to supporting the LDAPv3 (RFC 4510) base functionality, supports numereous elective LDAP features and extensions.

As of OpenLDAP 2.3, slapd(8) supports the following extensions:

  • DNS-based service location (RFC 2247 & RFC 3088)
  • Dynamic Directory Services Extensions (RFC 2589) via the dds overlay
  • Simple Paged Result Control (RFC 2696)
  • LDIFv1 (RFC 2849)
  • Password Modify operation (RFC 3062)
  • Named Referrals / ManageDSAit control (RFC 3296)
  • All Operational Attributes + attribute list feature (RFC 3673)
  • Component Matching Rules (RFC 3687)
  • Language Tag and Range options (RFC 3866)
  • Matched Values control (RFC 3876)
  • Proxy Authorization control (RFC 4370)
  • The Binary Encoding Option (RFC 4522)
  • X.509 Certificate Schema (RFC 4523)
  • COSINE Schema (RFC 4524)
  • Modify/Increment extension (RFC 4525)
  • Absolute True (&) and False (|) Filter extension (RFC 4526)
  • Pre/Post Read controls (RFC 4527)
  • Assertion control (RFC 4528)
  • Requesting Attributes by Object Class feature (RFC 4529)
  • entryUUID operational attribute(RFC 4530)
  • WhoAmI? operation (RFC 4532)
  • Content Synchronization operation (RFC 4533)
  • 'entryDN' operational attribute (RFC 5020)
  • No-Op control
  • Schema updates over LDAP via cn=config
  • Password Policy (ppolicy overlay)
  • Permissive Modify control
  • Search Dereference Control (deref overlay)
  • Session Tracking Control
  • What Failed? Control
  • Duplicate Entry Control (dupent overlay)

See also: (Xref) What LDAPv3 features/extensions are NOT supported by the OpenLDAP server? (Xref) How do you discover which LDAPv3 features/extensions an LDAP server supports?
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