NAME

slapo-deref - Dereference Control overlay to slapd

SYNOPSIS

/etc/ldap/slapd.conf

/etc/ldap/slapd.d

DESCRIPTION

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

EXAMPLES

  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

/etc/ldap/slapd.conf

default slapd configuration file

/etc/ldap/slapd.d

default slapd configuration directory

SEE ALSO

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

Pierangelo Masarati