usr.sbin/ldapd/ldapd.conf.5

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.Dd $Mdocdate: August 20 2013 $
.Dt LDAPD.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm ldapd.conf
.Nd Lightweight Directory Access Protocol daemon configuration file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is the configuration file for the LDAP daemon
.Xr ldapd 8 .
.Pp
The current line can be extended over multiple lines using a backslash
.Pq Sq \e .
Comments can be put anywhere in the file using a hash mark
.Pq Sq # ,
and extend to the end of the current line.
Care should be taken when commenting out multi-line text:
the comment is effective until the end of the entire block.
.Pp
Argument names not beginning with a letter, digit, or underscore
must be quoted.
Arguments containing whitespace should be surrounded by double quotes
.Pq \&" .
.Pp
Macros can be defined that will later be expanded in context.
Macro names must start with a letter, digit, or underscore,
and may contain any of those characters.
Macro names may not be reserved words (for example
.Ar listen ,
.Ar namespace ,
.Ar port ) .
Macros are not expanded inside quotes.
.Pp
For example:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
wan_if = "fxp0"
listen on $wan_if
listen on $wan_if tls
.Ed
.Pp
Additional configuration files can be included with the
.Ic include
keyword, for example:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
include "/etc/ldap/sub.namespace.conf"
.Ed
.Pp
Additional schema files can be included with the
.Ic schema
keyword, for example:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
schema "/etc/ldap/inetorgperson.schema"
.Ed
.Pp
The syntax of
.Nm
is described below.
.Sh GLOBAL CONFIGURATION
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Xo
.Ic listen on Ar interface
.Op Ic port Ar port
.Op Ic tls | ldaps | secure
.Op Ic certificate Ar name
.Xc
Specify an
.Ar interface
and
.Ar port
to listen on.
An IP address, domain name or absolute path may be used in place of
.Ar interface .
An absolute path is used to listen on a unix domain socket.
.Pp
Secured connections are provided either using STARTTLS
.Pq Ic tls ,
by default on port 389,
or LDAPS
.Pq Ic ldaps ,
by default on port 636.
Creation of certificates is documented in
.Xr starttls 8 .
If no certificate
.Ar name
is specified, the
.Pa /etc/ldap/certs
directory is searched for a file named by joining
the interface name with a .crt extension, e.g.\&
.Pa /etc/ldap/certs/fxp0.crt .
.Pp
If the certificate name is an absolute path, a .crt and .key extension
is appended to form the certificate path and key path respectively.
.Pp
Only secured connections accept plain text password authentication.
Connections using TLS or unix domain sockets are always considered secured.
The
.Ic secure
keyword can be used to mark an otherwise insecure connection
secured, e.g. if IPsec is used.
.It referral Ar URL
Specify a default referral.
If no namespace matches the base DN in a request, the request is
delegated to another LDAP server instead of returning an error.
.Pp
This option can be given multiple times, in which case the URLs are
considered equal.
Clients may choose to follow any of the referral URLs.
.Pp
The URL format has the following format:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
ldap://ldap.example.com
ldaps://ldap.example.com:3890
.Ed
.It rootdn Ar dn
Specify the distinguished name of the root user for all namespaces.
The root user is always allowed to read and write entries in all
local namespaces.
.It rootpw Ar password
Password for the root user.
Specified either in plain text, or in hashed format.
See AUTHENTICATION in
.Xr ldapd 8 .
.It schema Ar filename
Add schema definitions from the specified file.
For a description of the schema file syntax see
.Sx SCHEMA
below.
.El
.Sh NAMESPACES
A namespace is a subtree of the global X.500 DIT (Directory Information Tree),
also known as a naming context.
All entries' distinguished names (DN) has the same suffix, which is used to
identify the namespace.
The suffix should consist of the domain components, in reverse order, of your
domain name, as recommended by RFC 2247.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
namespace "dc=example,dc=com" {
	rootdn "cn=admin,dc=example,dc=com"
	rootpw "secret"
}
.Ed
.Pp
When matching requests against namespace suffixes, the most specific
match is used.
Each namespace stores data in a separate database file.
.Pp
A namespace has the following configuration properties:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It referral Ar URL
Specify a referral to return for requests matching the suffix.
.It rootdn Ar dn
Specify the distinguished name of the root user for the namespace.
The root user is always allowed to read and write entries in the namespace.
The distinguished name must have the same suffix as the namespace.
.It rootpw Ar password
Password for the root user.
Specified either in plain text, or in hashed format.
See AUTHENTICATION in
.Xr ldapd 8 .
.It index Ar attribute
Maintain an index on the specified attribute.
This index can be used for equality, presence, prefix substring and range searches.
.Xr ldapd 8
will update the index on each modification.
If you add an index to an existing namespace, you need to run
.Xr ldapctl 8
to index the existing entries.
.It fsync Ar on | off
If
.Ar off ,
data will not be forced to disk after each commit.
Disabling fsync can increase write speed substantially, but may lead to data
loss.
The default value is on.
.It cache-size Ar size
Set the cache size for data entries.
The
.Ar size
is specified in number of pages.
Note that more than the configured number of pages may exist in the cache, as
dirty pages and pages referenced by cursors are excluded from cache expiration.
.Pp
Cached pages are expired in a least recently used (LRU) order.
.It index-cache-size Ar size
Set the cache size for the index database.
.It relax schema
Disables checking of required and optional object attributes against schema.
All attributes and values are matched as case-insensitive strings.
All attributes are considered multi-valued.
.It strict schema
Enables checking of required and optional object attributes against schema.
This is the default.
.It Ic allow | deny
Allow or deny access to parts of the namespace.
.Pp
Each request to the
.Xr ldapd 8
daemon evaluates the filter rules in sequential order, from first to last.
The last matching rule decides what action is taken.
If no rule matches the request, the default action is to allow the request.
The root DN is always allowed to perform any request.
.Pp
The allow/deny statement operates on all access types by default.
This can be restricted by an access type specification:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It read access
Restricts the filter rule to search operations.
.It write access
Restricts the filter rule to add, delete and modify operations.
.It bind access
Restricts the filter rule to bind operations.
.El
.Pp
The scope of the filter rule can be restricted by the
.Em to
keyword:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It to subtree Ar DN
The filter rule applies to the distinguished name,
as well as for all its descendants.
.It to children of Ar DN
The filter rule applies to all the direct children of the distinguished name.
.It to Ar DN
The filter rule applies to the distinguished name only.
.It to any
The filter rule applies to any distinguished name in the namespace.
This is the default if no scope is specified.
.It to root
The filter rule applies to the root DSE.
.El
.Pp
Finally, the filter rule can match a bind DN:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It by any
The filter rule matches by any bind dn, including anonymous binds.
.It by Ar DN
The filter rule matches only if the requestor has previously performed
a bind as the specified distinguished name.
.It by self
The filter rule matches only if the requestor has previously performed
a bind as the distinguished name that is being requested.
Typically used to allow users to modify their own data.
.El
.It use compression Op level Ar level
Enable compression of entries and optionally specify compression level (0 - 9).
By default, no compression is used.
.El
.Sh SCHEMA
Schema files define the structure and format of entries in the directory tree.
There are three types of definitions in a schema file:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It attributetype
.Po
.Ar oid
.Op NAME name
.Op DESC description
.Op OBSOLETE
.Op SUP oid
.Op EQUALITY oid
.Op ORDERING oid
.Op SUBSTR oid
.Op SYNTAX oid
.Op SINGLE-VALUE
.Op COLLECTIVE
.Op NO-USER-MODIFICATION
.Op USAGE Brq userApplications | directoryOperation | distributedOperation | dSAOperation
.Pc
.Pp
An attribute type definition specifies the syntax of attribute values, whether
it allows multiple values and how it can be compared in search requests.
For a complete description of attribute type definitions, see section
4.1.2 in RFC 4712.
.It objectclass
.Po
.Ar oid
.Op NAME name
.Op DESC description
.Op OBSOLETE
.Op SUP oids
.Op Brq ABSTRACT | STRUCTURAL | AUXILIARY
.Op MUST oids
.Op MAY oids
.Pc
.Pp
An object class definition specifies which attributes are required
and which are allowed.
For a complete description of object class definitions, see section
4.1.1 in RFC 4712.
.It objectidentifier Ar symbolic-name Ar OID
Defines a symbolic name for the object identifier.
A symbolic name can be used in place of a numeric OID in definitions
of attribute types, object classes and other symbolic OIDs.
A descendant OID can be defined in terms of another symbolic OID by appending
a numeric OID after a colon, for example:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
objectidentifier MyOidRoot 1.2.3.4
objectidentifier MyOidAttributes MyOidRoot:5.6
objectidentifier MyOidObjects MyOidRoot:7
.Ed
.Pp
This would define MyOidAttributes as a symbolic name for the OID
1.2.3.4.5.6, and MyOidObjects for 1.2.3.4.7.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/etc/ldap/ldapd.confXXX" -compact
.It Pa /etc/ldapd.conf
Default
.Xr ldapd 8
configuration file.
.It Pa /etc/ldap/*.schema
Default schema definition files.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ldapctl 8 ,
.Xr ldapd 8
.Sh STANDARDS
.Rs
.%A K. Zeilenga
.%D June 2006
.%R RFC 4512
.%T Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Directory Information Models
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
file format first appeared in
.Ox 4.8 .