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SLAPO-DEREF(5)             File Formats Manual             SLAPO-DEREF(5)

NAME         top

       slapo-deref - Dereference Control overlay to slapd

SYNOPSIS         top

       ETCDIR/slapd.conf

       ETCDIR/slapd.d

DESCRIPTION         top

       This overlay implements the draft Dereference control. The overlay
       can be used with any backend or globally for all backends.

EXAMPLES         top

         database mdb
         ...
         overlay deref

       Given these entries:
         dn: cn=Howard Chu,ou=people,dc=example,dc=org
         objectClass: inetOrgPerson
         cn: Howard Chu
         sn: Chu
         uid: hyc

         dn: cn=Pierangelo Masarati,ou=people,dc=example,dc=org
         objectClass: inetOrgPerson
         cn: Pierangelo Masarati
         sn: Masarati
         uid: ando

         dn: cn=Test Group,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=org
         objectClass: groupOfNames
         cn: Test Group
         member: cn=Howard Chu,ou=people,dc=example,dc=org
         member: cn=Pierangelo Masarati,ou=people,dc=example,dc=org

       A search could be performed with a Dereference request control
       value specified as

         { member, uid }

       I.e.,
         ldapsearch -x -b dc=example,dc=org -E 'deref=member:uid'

       and the "cn=Test Group" entry would be returned with the response
       control value
         { { member, cn=Howard Chu,ou=people,dc=example,dc=org,
             { { uid, [hyc] } } },
           { member, cn=Pierangelo Masarati,ou=people,dc=example,dc=org,
             { { uid, [ando] } } } }

FILES         top

       ETCDIR/slapd.conf
              default slapd configuration file

       ETCDIR/slapd.d
              default slapd configuration directory

SEE ALSO         top

       slapd.conf(5), slapd-config(5).

       "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide"
       (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)

       IETF LDAP Dereference Control proposal by P. Masarati, H. Chu, in
       IETF document "draft-masarati-ldap-deref-00.txt".

AUTHOR         top

       Pierangelo Masarati

COLOPHON         top

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