OpenLDAP Clients and Servers

The OpenLDAP package includes clients, servers, and development libraries. Table 3-1 gives an overview of the utilities that come with the package. All pathnames are relative to the installation location, which defaults to /usr/local.

Table 3-1. Installed components included with OpenLDAP

Name

Description

libexec/slapd

The LDAP server.

libexec/slurpd

The LDAP replication helper.

bin/ldapadd

bin/ldapmodify

bin/ldapdelete

bin/ldapmodrdn

Command-line tools for adding, modifying, and deleting entries on an LDAP server. These commands support both LDAPv2 and LDAPv3.

bin/ldapsearch

bin/ldapcompare

Command-line utilities for searching for an LDAP directory or testing a compare operation on a specific attribute held by an entry.

bin/ldappasswd

A tool for changing the password attribute in LDAP entries. This tool is the LDAP equivalent of / bin/passwd.

sbin/slapadd

sbin/slapcat

sbin/slapindex

Tools for manipulating the local backend data store used by the slapd daemon.

sbin/slappasswd

A simple utility to generate password hashes suitable for use in slapd.conf.

lib/libldap*

lib/liblber*

include/ldap*.h

include/lber*.h

The OpenLDAP client SDK.

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