March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
308 pages
9h 36m
English
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OpenLDAP Clients and Servers
The OpenLDAP package includes clients, servers, and development libraries. Table 3-1 gives an overview of the utilities that come with the package. All pathnames are relative to the installation location, which defaults to /usr/local.
Table 3-1. Installed components included with OpenLDAP
|
Name |
Description |
|
libexec/slapd |
The LDAP server. |
|
libexec/slurpd |
The LDAP replication helper. |
|
bin/ldapadd bin/ldapmodify bin/ldapdelete bin/ldapmodrdn |
Command-line tools for adding, modifying, and deleting entries on an LDAP server. These commands support both LDAPv2 and LDAPv3. |
|
bin/ldapsearch bin/ldapcompare |
Command-line utilities for searching for an LDAP directory or testing a compare operation on a specific attribute held by an entry. |
|
bin/ldappasswd |
A tool for changing the password attribute in LDAP entries. This tool is the LDAP equivalent of / bin/passwd. |
|
sbin/slapadd sbin/slapcat sbin/slapindex |
Tools for manipulating the local backend data store used by the slapd daemon. |
|
sbin/slappasswd |
A simple utility to generate password hashes suitable for use in slapd.conf. |
|
lib/libldap* lib/liblber* include/ldap*.h include/lber*.h |
The OpenLDAP client SDK. |
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