3.4 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.