OpenLDAP 2.1 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 about X.500?
1.5. What the difference between LDAPv2 and LDAPv3?
1.6. What is slapd and what can it do?
1.7. 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. Using SASL
9.1. SASL Security Considerations
9.2. SASL Authentication
9.3. SASL Authorization

10. Using TLS
11. Constructing a Distributed Directory Service
11.1. Subordinate Knowledge Information
11.2. Superior Knowledge Information
11.3. The ManageDsaIT Control

12. Replication with slurpd
12.1. Overview
12.2. Replication Logs
12.3. Command-Line Options
12.4. Configuring slurpd and a slave slapd instance
12.5. 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