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.Dd $Mdocdate: November 10 2010 $
.Dt LDAPD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ldapd
.Nd Lightweight Directory Access Protocol daemon
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm ldapd
.Op Fl dnv
.Oo
.Fl D Ar macro Ns = Ns Ar value
.Oc
.Op Fl f Ar file
.Op Fl s Ar file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a daemon which implements version 3 of the LDAP protocol.
.Pp
A running
.Nm
process can be controlled using the
.Xr ldapctl 8
utility.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl D Ar macro Ns = Ns Ar value
Define
.Ar macro
to be set to
.Ar value
on the command line.
Overrides the definition of
.Ar macro
in the configuration file.
.It Fl d
Do not daemonize and log to
.Em stderr .
.It Fl f Ar file
Use
.Ar file
as the configuration file, instead of the default
.Pa /etc/ldapd.conf .
.It Fl n
Configtest mode.
Only check the configuration file for validity.
.It Fl s Ar file
Specify an alternative location for the socket file.
.It Fl v
Produce more verbose output.
A second
.Fl v
together with the
.Fl d
flag produces debug traces of decoded BER messages on stderr.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/var/run/ldapd.sockXXXXXXX" -compact
.It Pa /etc/ldapd.conf
default
.Nm
configuration file
.It Pa /var/run/ldapd.sock
default
.Nm
control socket
.It Pa /var/db/ldap/*.db
.Nm
database files
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ldapd.conf 5 ,
.Xr ldapctl 8
.Rs
.%R RFC 4511
.%T Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): The Protocol
.%D June 2006
.Re
.Rs
.%R RFC 4512
.%T Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Directory Information Models
.%D June 2006
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
program first appeared in
.Ox 4.8 .
.Sh CAVEATS
.Nm
is not yet fully LDAPv3 compliant.