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SLAPD.PLUGIN(5) File Formats Manual SLAPD.PLUGIN(5)
slapd.plugin - plugin configuration for slapd, the stand-alone
LDAP daemon
ETCDIR/slapd.conf
The slapd.conf(5) file contains configuration information for the
slapd(8) daemon. This configuration file is also used by the SLAPD
tools slapadd(8), slapcat(8), slapmodify(8), and slapindex(8).
The slapd.conf file consists of a series of global configuration
options that apply to slapd as a whole (including all backends),
followed by zero or more database backend definitions that contain
information specific to a backend instance.
The general format of slapd.conf is as follows:
# comment - these options apply to every database
<global configuration options>
# first database definition & configuration options
database <backend 1 type>
<configuration options specific to backend 1>
# subsequent database definitions & configuration options
...
If slapd is compiled with --enable-slapi, support for plugins
according to Netscape's Directory Server Plug-Ins. Version 4 of
the API is currently implemented, with some extensions from
version 5.
Both global and database specific data may contain plugin
information. Plugins associated with a specific database are
called before global plugins. This manpage details the slapd(8)
configuration statements that affect the loading of SLAPI plugins.
Arguments that should be replaced by actual text are shown in
brackets <>.
The structure of the plugin directives is
plugin <type> <lib_path> <init_function> [<arguments>]
Load a plugin of the specified type for the current
database.
The <type> can be one of preoperation, that is executed before
processing the operation for the specified database,
postoperation, that is executed after the operation for the
specified database has been processed, extendedop, that is used
when executing an extended operation, or object. The latter is
used for miscellaneous types such as ACL, computed attribute and
search filter rewriter plugins.
The <libpath> argument specifies the path to the plugin loadable
object; if a relative path is given, the object is looked for
according to the underlying dynamic loading package (libtool's
ltdl is used).
The <init_function> argument specifies what symbol must be called
when the plugin is first loaded. This function should register
the functions provided by the plugin for the desired operations.
It should be noted that it is this init function, not the plugin
type specified as the first argument, that determines when and for
what operations the plugin will be invoked. The optional
<arguments> list is passed to the init function.
pluginlog <file>
Specify an alternative path for the plugin log file
(default is LOCALSTATEDIR/errors).
modulepath <pathspec>
This statement sets the module load path for dynamically
loadable backends, as described in slapd.conf(5); however,
since both the dynamically loadable backends and the SLAPI
plugins use the same underlying library (libtool's ltdl)
its value also affects the plugin search path. In general
the search path is made of colon-separated paths; usually
the user-defined path is searched first; then the value of
the LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, if defined, is
used; finally, the system-specific dynamic load path is
attempted (e.g. on Linux the value of the environment
variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH). Please carefully read the
documentation of ltdl because its behavior is very platform
dependent.
ETCDIR/slapd.conf
default slapd configuration file
LOCALSTATEDIR/errors
default plugin log file
slapd(8),
"OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide"
(http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)
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Pages that refer to this page: slapd.conf(5), slapd-config(5)
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