March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
308 pages
9h 36m
English
Content preview from LDAP System Administration
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Slap Tools
The collection of slap tools included with OpenLDAP are provided to import and export data directly from the DB files used for supporting an OpenLDAP server.
slapadd(8c)
This tool reads LDIF entries from a file or standard input and writes the new records to a slapd database (see Table B-2).
Table B-2. Summary of slapadd command-line arguments
|
Option |
Description |
|
-c |
Continues processing input in the event of errors. |
|
-b suffix-n integer |
Specify which database in the configuration file to use by the directory’s suffix (-b) or by its location (-n) in the slapd.conf file (the first database listed is numbered 0). These options are mutually exclusive. |
|
-d integer |
Specifies which debugging information to log. See the
|
|
-f filename |
Specifies which configuration file to read. |
|
-l filename |
Specifies the LDIF file to use for input. In the absence of this option, slapadd reads data from standard input. |
|
-v |
Enables verbose mode. |
slapcat(8c)
This tool reads records from a slapd database and writes them to a file or standard output (see Table B-3).
Table B-3. Summary of slapcat command-line arguments
|
Option |
Description |
|
-c |
Continues processing input in the event of errors. |
|
-b suffix-n integer |
Specify which database in the configuration file to use by the directory’s suffix (-b) or by its location (-n) in the slapd.conf file (the first database listed is numbered 0). These options are mutually exclusive. ... |
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.