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SLAPD.PLUGIN(5)              File Formats Manual             SLAPD.PLUGIN(5)

NAME         top

       slapd.plugin  -  plugin configuration for slapd, the stand-alone LDAP
       daemon

SYNOPSIS         top

       ETCDIR/slapd.conf

DESCRIPTION         top

       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), 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.

FILES         top

       ETCDIR/slapd.conf
              default slapd configuration file
       LOCALSTATEDIR/errors
              default plugin log file

SEE ALSO         top

       slapd(8),
       "OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide" (http://www.OpenLDAP.org/doc/admin/)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS         top

       OpenLDAP Software is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project
       <http://www.openldap.org/>.  OpenLDAP Software is derived from the
       University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.

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