LDAP.CONF(F) LDAP.CONF(F) NAME ldap.conf, .ldaprc - ldap configuration file SYNOPSIS /etc/ldap/ldap.conf DESCRIPTION The ldap.conf configuration file is used to set system- wide defaults to be applied when running ldap clients. If the environment variable LDAPNOINIT is defined, all defaulting is disabled. Each user may specify an optional configuration file, .ldaprc, in his/her home directory which will be used to override the system-wide defaults file. Additional configuration files can be specified using the LDAPCONF and LDAPRC environment variables. LDAPCONF may be set the path of a configuration file. This path can be absolute or relative to current working directory. The LDAPRC, if defined, should be a basename of a file in the current working directory or in the user's home directory. Environmental variables may also be used to augment the file based defaults. The name of the option is the as listed but with a prefix of LDAP. For example, to define BASE via the environment, define the variable LDAPBASE to desired value. Some options are user-only. Such options are ignored if present in the ldap.conf (or file specified by LDAPCONF). OPTIONS The different configuration options are: BASE <base> Used to specify the default base DN to use when performing ldap operations. The base must be specified as a Distinguished Name in LDAP for- mat. BINDDN <dn> Used to specify the default bind DN to use when performing ldap operations. The bind DN must be specified as a Distinguished Name in LDAP for- mat. This is a user-only option. HOST <name[:port] ...> Used to specify the name(e) of an LDAP server(r) to which ldap library should connect to. Each server's name can be specified as a domain-style name or an IP address and optionally followed a ':' and the port number the ldap server is lis- tening on. A space separated listed of host may be provided. PORT <port> Used to specify the port used with connecting to LDAP servers(s). The port may be specified as a number. SASL_SECPROPS <properties> Used to specify Cyrus SASL security properties. The none flag (without any other properities) causes the flag properites defaults ("noanony- mous,noplain") to be cleared. The noplain flag disables mechanisms susceptible to simple pas- sive attacks. The noactive flag disables mecha- nisms susceptible to active attacks. The nodict flag disables mechanisms susceptible to passive dictionary attacks. The noanonyous flag dis- ables mechanisms which support anonymous login. The forwardsec flag require forward secrecy between sessions. The passcred require mecha- nisms which pass client credentials (and allow mechanisms which can pass credentials to do so). The minssf=<factor> property specifies the mini- mum acceptable security strength factor as an integer approximate to effective key length used for encryption. 0 (zero) implies no protection, 1 implies integrity protection only, 56 allows DES or other weak ciphers, 112 allows triple DES and other strong ciphers, 128 allows RC4, Blow- fish and other modern strong ciphers. The default is 0. The maxssf=<factor> property specifies the maximum acceptable security strength factor as an integer (see minssf description). The default is INT_MAX. The maxbufsize=<factor> property specifies the maxi- mum security layer receive buffer size allowed. 0 disables security layers. The default is 65536. SIZELIMIT <integer> Used to specify a size limit to use when per- forming searches. The number should be an non- negative integer. SIZELIMIT of zero (0) speci- fies unlimited search size. TIMELIMIT <integer> Used to specify a time limit to use when per- forming searches. The number should be an non- negative integer. TIMELIMIT of zero (0) speci- fies unlimited search time to be used. DEREF <never|searching|finding|always> Specify how aliases dereferencing is done. DEREF should be set to one of never, always, search, or find to specify that aliases are never dereferenced, always dereferenced, deref- erenced when searching, or dereferenced only when locating the base object for the search. The default is to never dereference aliases. FILES /etc/ldap/ldap.conf $HOME/.ldaprc $CWD/.ldaprc SEE ALSO ldap(p) AUTHOR Kurt Zeilenga, The OpenLDAP Project ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OpenLDAP is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Pro- ject (http://www.openldap.org/). OpenLDAP is derived from University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release. OpenLDAP 2.0.23-Release 20 August 2000 LDAP.CONF(F)