OpenLDAP Configuration SLAPD

Question 1

What the ‘include’ directive is used for ?

Answer 1

The ‘include’ directive is used to load another configuration file inside the current configuration file.

Syntax: include /path/to/another/conf

Question 2

What is inside the configuration file ‘core.schema’ ?(/etc/ldap/schema/core.schema)

Answer 2

‘core.schema’ contains all of the attribute and object class definitions from the LDAP v.3 specification.

Question 3

What is inside the configuration file ‘cosine.schema’ and ‘inetorgperson.shema’ ? (/etc/ldap/schema/*.schema)

Answer 3

‘cosine.schema’ and ‘inetorgperson.shema’ files contain schema definitions for commonly used standardized extensions (RFC 4524 and RFC 2798)

Question 4

What the ‘pidfile’ directive is used for ?

Answer 4

it tells slapd where to store the file that contain information on the process id for the slapd server process

Question 5

What the ‘argsfile’ directive is used for ?

Answer 5

it tells slapd where to store the file that contain information on the arguments that were passed into the slapd command at startup

Question 6

What the ‘loglevel’ directive is used for ?

Answer 6

It specifies how much information slapd should send to the system log (by way of syslogd). The loglevel directive accepts keywords (like any, none, trace, packets, args, conns, BER, filter, config, ACL, stats, stats2, shell, parse, sync) or integers (0, 0x1, 0x2, 0x4, 0x8, etc.)

Question 7

What is an ‘overlay’ ?

Answer 7

It is an extension (a module) that can modify the behavior of the server

Question 8

What the ‘modulepath’ directive is used for ?

Answer 8

it provides the full paths to the directories where the modules are stored

Question 9

What the ‘moduleload’ directive is used for ?

Answer 9

It instruct openldap to load a particular module

Question 10

How many databases can be stored per openldap server ?

Answer 10

Many

Question 11

What the ‘database’ directive is used for ?

Answer 11

It specifies which database backend will be used (hdb, bdb, etc.)

Question 12

What the ‘suffix’ directive is used for ?

Answer 12

it indicates which part of the directory tree this database will hold

Question 13

What the ‘rootdn’ directive is used for ?

Answer 13

It specifies the DN that will be considered the administrator of this directory

Question 14

What the ‘rootpw’ directive is used for ?

Answer 14

It is used to assign the password to the directory administrator

Question 15

How to give to the ‘rootpw’ directive an encrypted passwd ?

Answer 15

Use ldappasswd

Question 16

What the ‘directory’ directive is used for ?

Answer 16

It is used to indicate which directory on the filesystem should hold the database files

Question 17

What the ‘index’ directive is used for ?

Answer 17

It is composed of the list of attributes that should be indexed followed by the type of matching that the index will be used for

Syntax: index attr1, attr2, attrn eq,sub,operatorn

Question 18

What is the goal of the utility ‘slapindex’

Answer 18

‘slapindex’ is used to rebuild the indexex every time the ‘index’ directives in ‘slapd.conf’ are modified

Question 19

What the ‘access’ directive is used for ?

Answer 19

It is used to configure Access Control Lists (ACL).

Syntax:
access to [resources]
by [who] [typeofaccessgranted]
by [who] [typeofaccessgranted]
by [who] [typeofaccessgranted]

Question 20

What is the goal of the utility ‘slaptest’

Answer 20

It is a tool for testing