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<refentry id="nssldapdconf5">

 <refentryinfo>
  <author>
   <firstname>Arthur</firstname>
   <surname>de Jong</surname>
  </author>
 </refentryinfo>

 <refmeta>
  <refentrytitle>nslcd.conf</refentrytitle>
  <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
  <refmiscinfo class="version">Version 0.9.12</refmiscinfo>
  <refmiscinfo class="manual">System Manager's Manual</refmiscinfo>
  <refmiscinfo class="date">Nov 2021</refmiscinfo>
 </refmeta>

 <refnamediv id="name">
  <refname>nslcd.conf</refname>
  <refpurpose>configuration file for LDAP nameservice daemon</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>

 <refsect1 id="description">
  <title>Description</title>
  <para>
   The <emphasis>nss-pam-ldapd</emphasis> package allows <acronym>LDAP</acronym>
   directory servers to be used as a primary source of name service
   information. (Name service information typically includes users, hosts,
   groups, and other such data historically stored in flat files or
   <acronym>NIS</acronym>.)
  </para>
  <para>
    The file <filename>nslcd.conf</filename> contains the
    configuration information for running <command>nslcd</command> (see
    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nslcd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>).
    The file contains options, one on each line, defining the way
    <acronym>NSS</acronym> lookups and <acronym>PAM</acronym> actions
    are mapped to <acronym>LDAP</acronym> lookups.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 id="options">
  <title>Options</title>

  <refsect2 id="runtime_options">
   <title>Runtime options</title>
   <variablelist>

    <varlistentry id="threads"> <!-- since 0.6.2 -->
     <term><option>threads</option> <replaceable>NUM</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the number of threads to start that can handle requests
       and perform <acronym>LDAP</acronym> queries.
       Each thread opens a separate connection to the <acronym>LDAP</acronym>
       server.
       The default is to start 5 threads.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="uid"> <!-- since 0.6.3 -->
     <term><option>uid</option> <replaceable>UID</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This specifies the user id with which the daemon should be run.
       This can be a numerical id or a symbolic value.
       If no uid is specified no attempt to change the user will be made.
       Note that you should use values that don't need <acronym>LDAP</acronym>
       to resolve.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="gid"> <!-- since 0.6.3 -->
     <term><option>gid</option> <replaceable>GID</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This specifies the group id with which the daemon should be run.
       This can be a numerical id or a symbolic value.
       If no gid is specified no attempt to change the group will be made.
       Note that you should use values that don't need <acronym>LDAP</acronym>
       to resolve.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="log"> <!-- since 0.9 -->
     <term><option>log</option> <replaceable>SCHEME</replaceable> <optional><replaceable>LEVEL</replaceable></optional></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This option controls the way logging is done.
       The <replaceable>SCHEME</replaceable> argument may either be
       <literal>none</literal>, <literal>syslog</literal> or an absolute
       file name.
       The <replaceable>LEVEL</replaceable> argument is optional and specifies
       the log level.
       The log level may be one of: <literal>crit</literal>,
       <literal>error</literal>, <literal>warning</literal>,
       <literal>notice</literal>, <literal>info</literal> or
       <literal>debug</literal>. The default log level is <literal>info</literal>.
       All messages with the specified loglevel or higher are logged.
       This option can be supplied multiple times.
       If this option is omitted <literal>syslog info</literal> is assumed.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

   </variablelist>
  </refsect2>

  <refsect2 id="general_connection_options">
   <title>General connection options</title>
   <variablelist>

    <varlistentry id="uri"> <!-- since 0.1 -->
     <term><option>uri</option> <replaceable>URI</replaceable> ...</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the <acronym>LDAP</acronym> <acronym>URI</acronym> of the
       server to connect to.
       The <acronym>URI</acronym> scheme may be <literal>ldap</literal>,
       <literal>ldapi</literal> or <literal>ldaps</literal>, specifying
       <acronym>LDAP</acronym> over <acronym>TCP</acronym>,
       <acronym>ICP</acronym> or <acronym>SSL</acronym> respectively (if
       supported by the <acronym>LDAP</acronym> library).
      </para>
      <para>
       Alternatively, the value <literal>DNS</literal> may be
       used to try to lookup the server using <acronym>DNS</acronym>
       <acronym>SRV</acronym> records. <!-- since 0.5 -->
       By default the current domain is used but another domain can
       be queried by using the
       <literal>DNS:DOMAIN</literal> syntax.
       <!-- since 0.8.4 -->
       To convert <acronym>SRV</acronym> records for port 389 into an
       <literal>ldaps://</literal> <acronym>URI</acronym>, <literal>DNSLDAPS</literal>
       can be used. <!-- since 0.9.12 -->
      </para>
      <para>
       When using the <literal>ldapi</literal> scheme, <literal>%2f</literal> should be used to escape slashes
       (e.g. <literal>ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd%2fldapi/</literal>), although most of the
       time this should not be needed.
      </para>
      <para>
       This option may be specified multiple times and/or with more
       URIs on the line, separated by spaces. Normally, only the first
       server will be used with the following servers as fall-back (see
       <option>bind_timelimit</option> below).
      </para>
      <para>
       If <acronym>LDAP</acronym> lookups are used for host name resolution,
       any host names should be specified as an IP address or name that can be
       resolved without using <acronym>LDAP</acronym>.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="ldap_version"> <!-- since 0.1 -->
     <term><option>ldap_version</option> <replaceable>VERSION</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the version of the <acronym>LDAP</acronym> protocol to use.
       The default is to use the maximum version supported by the
       <acronym>LDAP</acronym> library.</para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="binddn"> <!-- since 0.1 -->
     <term><option>binddn</option> <replaceable>DN</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the distinguished name with which to bind to the directory
       server for lookups.
       The default is to bind anonymously.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="bindpw"> <!-- since 0.1 -->
     <term><option>bindpw</option> <replaceable>PASSWORD</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the credentials with which to bind.
       This option is only applicable when used with <option>binddn</option> above.
       If you set this option you should consider changing the permissions
       of the <filename>nslcd.conf</filename> file to only grant access to
       the root user.
<!-- WHEN SASL IS DOCUMENTED:
       This option is only applicable when either the <option>binddn</option> or
       <option>sasl_authcid</option> options are used.
-->
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="rootpwmoddn"> <!-- since 0.7.3 -->
     <term><option>rootpwmoddn</option> <replaceable>DN</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the distinguished name to use when the root user tries to
       modify a user's password using the PAM module.
      </para>
      <para>
       Note that currently this DN needs to exist as a real entry in the
       LDAP directory.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="rootpwmodpw"> <!-- since 0.8.0 -->
     <term><option>rootpwmodpw</option> <replaceable>PASSWORD</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the credentials with which to bind if the root
       user tries to change a user's password.
       This option is only applicable when used with
       <option>rootpwmoddn</option> above.
       If this option is not specified the PAM module prompts the user for
       this password.
       If you set this option you should consider changing the permissions
       of the <filename>nslcd.conf</filename> file to only grant access to
       the root user.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

   </variablelist>
  </refsect2>

  <refsect2 id="sasl_authentication_options">
   <title><acronym>SASL</acronym> authentication options</title>
   <variablelist>

    <varlistentry id="sasl_mech"> <!-- documented since 0.7.7 -->
     <term><option>sasl_mech</option> <replaceable>MECHANISM</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the <acronym>SASL</acronym> mechanism to be used when
       performing <acronym>SASL</acronym> authentication.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="sasl_realm"> <!-- documented since 0.7.7 -->
     <term><option>sasl_realm</option> <replaceable>REALM</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the <acronym>SASL</acronym> realm to be used when performing
       <acronym>SASL</acronym> authentication.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="sasl_authcid"> <!-- documented since 0.7.7 -->
     <term><option>sasl_authcid</option> <replaceable>AUTHCID</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the authentication identity to be used when performing
       <acronym>SASL</acronym> authentication.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="sasl_authzid"> <!-- documented since 0.7.7 -->
     <term><option>sasl_authzid</option> <replaceable>AUTHZID</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the authorization identity to be used when performing
       <acronym>SASL</acronym> authentication.
       Must be specified in one of the formats: dn:&lt;distinguished name&gt;
       or u:&lt;username&gt;.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="sasl_secprops"> <!-- documented since 0.7.7 -->
     <term><option>sasl_secprops</option> <replaceable>PROPERTIES</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies Cyrus <acronym>SASL</acronym> security properties.
       Allowed values are described in the
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>ldap.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
       manual page.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="sasl_canonicalize"> <!-- since 0.8.11 -->
     <term><option>sasl_canonicalize</option> yes|no</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Determines whether the <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server host name should
       be canonicalised. If this is set to yes the <acronym>LDAP</acronym>
       library will do a reverse host name lookup.
       By default, it is left up to the <acronym>LDAP</acronym> library
       whether this check is performed or not.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

   </variablelist>
  </refsect2>

  <refsect2 id="kerberos_authentication_options">
   <title>Kerberos authentication options</title>
   <variablelist>

    <varlistentry id="krb5_ccname"> <!-- since 0.5 -->
     <term><option>krb5_ccname</option> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Set the name for the GSS-API Kerberos credentials cache.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

   </variablelist>
  </refsect2>

  <refsect2 id="search_mapping_options">
   <title>Search/mapping options</title>
   <variablelist>

    <varlistentry id="base"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>base</option>
           <optional><replaceable>MAP</replaceable></optional>
           <replaceable>DN</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the distinguished name (<acronym>DN</acronym>)
       to use as search base.
       This option may be supplied multiple times and all specified bases
       will be searched.
      </para>
      <para>
       A global search base may be specified or a MAP-specific one.
       If no MAP-specific search bases are defined the global ones are used.
      </para>
      <para>
       If, instead of a <acronym>DN</acronym>, the value
       <replaceable>DOMAIN</replaceable> is specified, the host's
       <acronym>DNS</acronym> domain is used to construct a search base.
       A value of <replaceable>""</replaceable> can be used to indicate an
       empty search base (quotes are not otherwise supported for base
       values and not all LDAP server configurations support this). <!-- since 0.9.12 -->
      </para>
      <para>
       If this value is not defined an attempt is made to look it up
       in the configured <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server. If the
       <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server is unavailable during start-up
       <command>nslcd</command> will not start.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="scope"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>scope</option>
           <optional><replaceable>MAP</replaceable></optional>
           sub<optional>tree</optional>|one<optional>level</optional>|base|children</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the search scope (subtree, onelevel, base or children).
       The default scope is subtree; base scope is almost never useful for
       name service lookups; children scope is not supported on all servers.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="deref"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>deref</option> never|searching|finding|always</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the policy for dereferencing aliases.
       The default policy is to never dereference aliases.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="referrals"> <!-- since 0.6.1 -->
     <term><option>referrals</option> yes|no</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies whether automatic referral chasing should be enabled.
       The default behaviour is to chase referrals.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="filter"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>filter</option>
           <replaceable>MAP</replaceable>
           <replaceable>FILTER</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The <replaceable>FILTER</replaceable>
       is an <acronym>LDAP</acronym> search filter to use for a
       specific map.
       The default filter is a basic search on the
       objectClass for the map (e.g. <literal>(objectClass=posixAccount)</literal>).
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="map"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>map</option>
           <replaceable>MAP</replaceable>
           <replaceable>ATTRIBUTE</replaceable>
           <replaceable>NEWATTRIBUTE</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This option allows for custom attributes to be looked up instead of
       the default RFC 2307 attributes.
       The <replaceable>MAP</replaceable> may be one of
       the supported maps below.
       The <replaceable>ATTRIBUTE</replaceable> is the one as
       used in <acronym>RFC</acronym> 2307 (e.g. <literal>userPassword</literal>,
       <literal>ipProtocolNumber</literal>, <literal>macAddress</literal>, etc.).
      </para>
      <para>
       The <replaceable>NEWATTRIBUTE</replaceable> may be the name of any attribute
       as it is available in the directory.
      </para>
      <para>
       If the <replaceable>NEWATTRIBUTE</replaceable> is quoted (")
       as <replaceable>"EXPRESSION"</replaceable>
       it is treated as an expression which will be evaluated
       to build up the actual value used.
       See the section on attribute mapping expressions below for more details.
      </para>
      <para>
       Only some attributes for group, passwd and shadow entries may be mapped
       with an expression (because other attributes may be used in search
       filters).
       For group entries only the <literal>userPassword</literal> attribute
       may be mapped with an expression.
       For passwd entries the following attributes may be mapped with an
       expression: <literal>userPassword</literal>, <literal>gidNumber</literal>,
       <literal>gecos</literal>, <literal>homeDirectory</literal> and
       <literal>loginShell</literal>.
       For shadow entries the following attributes may be mapped with an
       expression: <literal>userPassword</literal>, <literal>shadowLastChange</literal>,
       <literal>shadowMin</literal>, <literal>shadowMax</literal>,
       <literal>shadowWarning</literal>, <literal>shadowInactive</literal>,
       <literal>shadowExpire</literal> and <literal>shadowFlag</literal>.
      </para>
      <para> <!-- since 0.8.3 -->
       The <literal>uidNumber</literal> and <literal>gidNumber</literal>
       attributes in the <literal>passwd</literal> and <literal>group</literal>
       maps may be mapped to the <literal>objectSid</literal> followed by
       the domain SID to derive numeric user and group ids from the SID
       (e.g. <literal>objectSid:S-1-5-21-3623811015-3361044348-30300820</literal>).
      </para>
      <para> <!-- since 0.8.0 -->
       By default all <literal>userPassword</literal> attributes are mapped
       to the unmatchable password ("*") to avoid accidentally leaking
       password information.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

   </variablelist>
  </refsect2>

  <refsect2 id="timing_reconnect_options">
   <title>Timing/reconnect options</title>
   <variablelist>

    <varlistentry id="bind_timelimit"> <!-- since 0.1 -->
     <term><option>bind_timelimit</option> <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the time limit (in seconds) to use when connecting to the
       directory server.
       This is distinct from the time limit specified in
       <option>timelimit</option> and affects the set-up of the connection only.
       Note that not all <acronym>LDAP</acronym> client libraries have support
       for setting the connection time out.
       The default <option>bind_timelimit</option> is 10 seconds.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="timelimit"> <!-- since 0.1 -->
     <term><option>timelimit</option> <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the time limit (in seconds) to wait for a response from the
       <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server.
       A value of zero (0), which is the default, is to wait indefinitely for
       searches to be completed.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="idle_timelimit"> <!-- since 0.1 -->
     <term><option>idle_timelimit</option> <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the period of inactivity (in seconds) after which the
       connection to the <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server will be closed.
       The default is not to time out connections.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="reconnect_sleeptime"> <!-- since 0.5 -->
     <term><option>reconnect_sleeptime</option> <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the number of seconds to sleep when connecting to all
       <acronym>LDAP</acronym> servers fails.
       By default 1 second is waited between the first failure and the first
       retry.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="reconnect_retrytime"> <!-- since 0.7.4, was reconnect_maxsleeptime before -->
     <term><option>reconnect_retrytime</option> <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the time after which the <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server is
       considered to be permanently unavailable.
       Once this time is reached retries will be done only once per this time period.
       The default value is 10 seconds.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

   </variablelist>

   <para>
    Note that the reconnect logic as described above is the mechanism that
    is used between <command>nslcd</command> and the <acronym>LDAP</acronym>
    server. The mechanism between the <acronym>NSS</acronym> and
    <acronym>PAM</acronym> client libraries on one end and
    <command>nslcd</command> on the other is simpler with a fixed compiled-in
    time out of a 10 seconds for writing to <command>nslcd</command> and
    a time out of 60 seconds for reading answers.
    <command>nslcd</command> itself has a read time out of 0.5 seconds
    and a write time out of 60 seconds.
   </para>

  </refsect2>

  <refsect2 id="ssl_tls_options">
   <title><acronym>SSL</acronym>/<acronym>TLS</acronym> options</title>
   <variablelist>

    <varlistentry id="ssl"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>ssl</option> on|off|start_tls</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies whether to use <acronym>SSL</acronym>/<acronym>TLS</acronym> or not (the default is not to). If
       <replaceable>start_tls</replaceable>
       is specified then StartTLS is used rather than raw <acronym>LDAP</acronym> over <acronym>SSL</acronym>.
       Not all <acronym>LDAP</acronym> client libraries support both <acronym>SSL</acronym>,
       StartTLS and all related configuration options.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="tls_reqcert"> <!-- since 0.6.8, was tls_checkpeer before -->
     <term><option>tls_reqcert</option> never|allow|try|demand|hard</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies what checks to perform on a server-supplied certificate.
       The meaning of the values is described in the
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>ldap.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
       manual page.
       At least one of <option>tls_cacertdir</option> and
       <option>tls_cacertfile</option> is required if peer verification is
       enabled.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="tls_cacertdir"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>tls_cacertdir</option> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the directory containing X.509 certificates for peer
       authentication.
       This parameter is ignored when using GnuTLS.
       On Debian OpenLDAP is linked against GnuTLS.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="tls_cacertfile"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>tls_cacertfile</option> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the path to the X.509 certificate for peer authentication.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="tls_randfile"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>tls_randfile</option> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the path to an entropy source.
       This parameter is ignored when using GnuTLS.
       On Debian OpenLDAP is linked against GnuTLS.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="tls_ciphers"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>tls_ciphers</option> <replaceable>CIPHERS</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the ciphers to use for <acronym>TLS</acronym>.
       See your <acronym>TLS</acronym> implementation's
       documentation for further information.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="tls_cert"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>tls_cert</option> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the path to the file containing the local certificate for
       client <acronym>TLS</acronym> authentication.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="tls_key"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>tls_key</option> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the path to the file containing the private key for client
       <acronym>TLS</acronym> authentication.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="tls_reqsan"> <!-- since 0.9.12 -->
     <term><option>tls_reqsan</option> never|allow|try|demand|hard</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the way server Subject Alternative Name (SAN) is checked in
       the server-supplied certificate.
       The meaning of the values is described in the
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>ldap.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
       manual page.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="tls_crlcheck"> <!-- since 0.9.12 -->
     <term><option>tls_crlcheck</option> none|peer|all</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies if the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) of the CA should
       be used to verify if the server certificates have not been revoked.
       The meaning of the values is described in the
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>ldap.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
       manual page.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="tls_crlfile"> <!-- since 0.9.12 -->
     <term><option>tls_crlfile</option> <replaceable>PATH</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies the path to the file containing a Certificate Revocation List
       to be used to verify if the server certificates.
       The meaning of the values is described in the
       <citerefentry><refentrytitle>ldap.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
       manual page.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

   </variablelist>
  </refsect2>

  <refsect2 id="other_options">
   <title>Other options</title>
   <variablelist>

<!-- do not document this option for now as support it is not finalized
    <varlistentry id="restart">
     <term><option>restart</option> yes|no</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Specifies whether the <acronym>LDAP</acronym>
       client library should restart the
       <emphasis remap="B">select()</emphasis>
       system call when interrupted. This feature is not supported by all
       client libraries.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
-->

    <varlistentry id="pagesize"> <!-- since 0.3 -->
     <term><option>pagesize</option> <replaceable>NUMBER</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Set this to a number greater than 0 to request paged results from
       the <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server in accordance with RFC2696.
       The default (0) is to not request paged results.
      </para>
      <para>
       This is useful for <acronym>LDAP</acronym> servers that contain a
       lot of entries (e.g. more than 500) and limit the number of entries
       that are returned with one request.
       For OpenLDAP servers you may need to set
       <option>sizelimit size.prtotal=unlimited</option>
       for allowing more entries to be returned over multiple pages.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="nss_initgroups_ignoreusers"> <!-- since 0.7.4 -->
     <term><option>nss_initgroups_ignoreusers</option> user1,user2,...</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This option prevents group membership lookups through
       <acronym>LDAP</acronym> for the specified users. This can be useful
       in case of unavailability of the <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server.
       This option may be specified multiple times.
      </para>
      <para>
       Alternatively, the value <literal>ALLLOCAL</literal> may be
       used. With that value nslcd builds a full list of
       non-<acronym>LDAP</acronym> users on startup.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="nss_min_uid"> <!-- since 0.8.0 -->
     <term><option>nss_min_uid</option> <replaceable>UID</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This option ensures that <acronym>LDAP</acronym> users with a numeric
       user id lower than the specified value are ignored. Also requests for
       users with a lower user id are ignored.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="nss_uid_offset"> <!-- since 0.9.9 -->
     <term><option>nss_uid_offset</option> <replaceable>NUMBER</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This option specifies an offset that is added to all
       <acronym>LDAP</acronym> numeric user ids.
       This can be used to avoid user id collisions with local users or,
       when using <literal>objectSid</literal> attributes, for compatibility
       reasons.
      </para>
      <para>
       The value from the <option>nss_min_uid</option> option is evaluated
       after applying the offset.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="nss_gid_offset"> <!-- since 0.9.9 -->
     <term><option>nss_gid_offset</option> <replaceable>NUMBER</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This option specifies an offset that is added to all
       <acronym>LDAP</acronym> numeric group ids.
       This can be used to avoid user id collisions with local groups or,
       when using <literal>objectSid</literal> attributes, for compatibility
       reasons.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="nss_nested_groups"> <!-- since 0.9.0 -->
     <term><option>nss_nested_groups</option> yes|no</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       If this option is set, the <literal>member</literal> attribute of a
       group may point to another group.
       Members of nested groups are also returned in the higher level group
       and parent groups are returned when finding groups for a specific user.
       The default is not to perform extra searches for nested groups.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="nss_getgrent_skipmembers"> <!-- since 0.9.6 -->
     <term><option>nss_getgrent_skipmembers</option> yes|no</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       If this option is set, the group member list is not retrieved when
       looking up groups.
       Lookups for finding which groups a user belongs to will remain
       functional so the user will likely still get the correct groups
       assigned on login.
      </para>
      <para>
       This can offer a speed-up on systems that have very large groups.
       It has the downside of returning inconsistent information about
       group membership which may confuse some applications.
       This option is not recommended for most configurations.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="nss_disable_enumeration"> <!-- since 0.9.6 -->
     <term><option>nss_disable_enumeration</option> yes|no</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       If this option is set, functions which cause all user/group entries to
       be loaded (getpwent(), getgrent(), setspent()) from the directory will
       not succeed in doing so.
       Applications that depend on being able to sequentially read all users
       and/or groups may fail to operate correctly.
      </para>
      <para>
       This can dramatically reduce <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server load in
       situations where there are a great number of users and/or groups.
       This is typically used in situations where user/program access to
       enumerate the entire directory is undesirable, and changing the
       behavior of the user/program is not possible.
       This option is not recommended for most configurations.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="validnames"> <!-- since 0.8.2 -->
     <term><option>validnames</option> <replaceable>REGEX</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This option can be used to specify how user and group names are
       verified within the system. This pattern is used to check all user and
       group names that are requested and returned from <acronym>LDAP</acronym>.
      </para>
      <para>
       The regular expression should be specified as a POSIX extended regular
       expression. The expression itself needs to be separated by slash (/)
       characters and the 'i' flag may be appended at the end to indicate
       that the match should be case-insensitive.
       The default value is
       <literal>/^[a-z0-9._@$()]([a-z0-9._@$() \\~-]*[a-z0-9._@$()~-])?$/i</literal>
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="ignorecase"> <!-- since 0.8.7 -->
     <term><option>ignorecase</option> yes|no</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This specifies whether or not to perform searches for group,
       netgroup, passwd, protocols, rpc, services and shadow maps using
       case-insensitive matching.
       Setting this to <literal>yes</literal> could open up the system
       to authorisation bypass vulnerabilities and introduce nscd cache poisoning
       vulnerabilities which allow denial of service.
       The default is to perform case-sensitive filtering of LDAP search
       results for the above maps.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="pam_authc_ppolicy"> <!-- since 0.9.7 -->
     <term><option>pam_authc_ppolicy</option> yes|no</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This option specifies whether password policy controls are requested
       and handled from the <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server when performing
       user authentication.
       By default the controls are requested and handled if available.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="pam_authc_search"> <!-- since 0.9.9 -->
     <term><option>pam_authc_search</option>
           <replaceable>FILTER</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       By default <command>nslcd</command> performs an
       <acronym>LDAP</acronym> search with the user's credentials after BIND
       (authentication) to ensure that the BIND operation was successful.
       The default search is a simple check to see if the user's DN exists.
      </para>
      <para>
        A search filter can be specified that will be used instead.
        The same substitutions as with the <option>pam_authz_search</option>
        option will be performed and the search should at least return one
        entry.
      </para>
      <para>
        The value <literal>BASE</literal> may be used to force the default
        search for the user DN.
      </para>
      <para>
        The value <literal>NONE</literal> may be used to indicate that no
        search should be performed after BIND.
        Note that some <acronym>LDAP</acronym> servers do not always return a
        correct error code as a result of a failed BIND operation (e.g. when
        an empty password is supplied).
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="pam_authz_search"> <!-- since 0.7.4 -->
     <term><option>pam_authz_search</option>
           <replaceable>FILTER</replaceable></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       This option allows flexible fine tuning of the authorisation check that
       should be performed. The search filter specified is executed and
       if any entries match, access is granted, otherwise access is denied.
      </para>
      <para>
       The search filter can contain the following variable references:
         <literal>$username</literal>, <literal>$service</literal>,
         <literal>$ruser</literal>, <literal>$rhost</literal>,
         <literal>$tty</literal>, <literal>$hostname</literal>,
         <literal>$fqdn</literal>, <!-- since 0.8.1 -->
         <literal>$domain</literal>, <!-- since 0.9.10 -->
         <literal>$dn</literal>, and <literal>$uid</literal>.
       These references are substituted in the search filter using the
       same syntax as described in the section on attribute mapping
       expressions below.
      </para>
      <para>
       For example, to check that the user has a proper <literal>authorizedService</literal>
       value if the attribute is present (this almost emulates the
       <option>pam_check_service_attr</option> option in PADL's pam_ldap):
       <literallayout><literal>(&amp;(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=$username)(|(authorizedService=$service)(!(authorizedService=*))))</literal></literallayout>
      </para>
      <para>
       The <option>pam_check_host_attr</option> option can be emulated with:
       <literallayout><literal>(&amp;(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=$username)(|(host=$hostname)(host=$fqdn)(host=\\*)))</literal></literallayout>
      </para>
      <para> <!-- since 0.8.9 -->
       This option may be specified multiple times and all specified searches
       should at least return one entry for access to be granted.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="pam_password_prohibit_message"> <!-- since 0.8.11 -->
     <term><option>pam_password_prohibit_message</option>
           "<replaceable>MESSAGE</replaceable>"</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       If this option is set password modification using pam_ldap will be
       denied and the specified message will be presented to the user instead.
       The message can be used to direct the user to an alternative means
       of changing their password.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="reconnect_invalidate"> <!-- since 0.9.1, was nscd_invalidate in 0.9.0 -->
     <term><option>reconnect_invalidate</option>
           <replaceable>DB</replaceable>,<replaceable>DB</replaceable>,...</term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       If this option is set, <command>nslcd</command> will try to flush the
       specified external caches on start-up and whenever a connection to the
       <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server is re-established after an error.
      </para>
      <para>
       <replaceable>DB</replaceable> can refer to one of the nsswitch maps,
       in which case <command>nscd</command> is contacted to flush its cache
       for the specified database.
       <!-- since 0.9.1 -->
       If <replaceable>DB</replaceable> is <literal>nfsidmap</literal>,
       <command>nfsidmap</command> is contacted to clear its cache.
      </para>
      <para>
       Using this option ensures that external caches are cleared of
       incorrect information (typically the absence of users) that may
       be present due to unavailability of the <acronym>LDAP</acronym> server.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="cache"> <!-- since 0.9.3 -->
     <term><option>cache</option>
           <replaceable>CACHE</replaceable>
           <replaceable>TIME</replaceable>
           <optional><replaceable>TIME</replaceable></optional></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Configure the time entries are kept in the specified internal cache.
      </para>
      <para>
        The first <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> value specifies the time
        to keep found entries in the cache.
        The second <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> value specifies to the
        time to remember that a particular entry was not found.
        If the second parameter is absent, it is assumed to be the same as
        the first.
      </para>
      <para>
       Time values are specified as a number followed by an
       <literal>s</literal> for seconds, <literal>m</literal> for minutes,
       <literal>h</literal> for hours or <literal>d</literal> for days.
       Use <literal>0</literal> or <literal>off</literal> to disable the
       cache.
      </para>
      <para>
       Currently, only the <literal>dn2uid</literal> cache is supported
       that is used to remember DN to username lookups that are used when the
       <literal>member</literal> attribute is used.
       The default time value for this cache is <literal>15m</literal>.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

   </variablelist>
  </refsect2>

 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 id="maps">
  <title>Supported maps</title>
  <para>
   The following maps are supported. They are referenced as
   <replaceable>MAP</replaceable> in the options above.
  </para>
  <variablelist remap="TP">
   <varlistentry>
    <term>alias<optional>es</optional></term>
    <listitem><para>
     Mail aliases.
     Note that most mail servers do not use the <acronym>NSS</acronym>
     interface for requesting mail aliases and parse
     <filename>/etc/aliases</filename> on their own.
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>ether<optional>s</optional></term>
    <listitem><para>Ethernet numbers (mac addresses).</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>group</term>
    <listitem><para>Posix groups.</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>host<optional>s</optional></term>
    <listitem><para>Host names.</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>netgroup</term>
    <listitem><para>Host and user groups used for access control.</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>network<optional>s</optional></term>
    <listitem><para>Network numbers.</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>passwd</term>
    <listitem><para>Posix users.</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>protocol<optional>s</optional></term>
    <listitem><para>Protocol definitions (like in <filename>/etc/protocols</filename>).</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>rpc</term>
    <listitem><para>Remote procedure call names and numbers.</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>service<optional>s</optional></term>
    <listitem><para>Network service names and numbers.</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term>shadow</term>
    <listitem><para>Shadow user password information.</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
  </variablelist>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 id="attmappingexpressions"> <!-- since 0.7.2 -->
  <title>Attribute mapping expressions</title>
  <para>
   For some attributes a mapping expression may be used to construct the
   resulting value.
   This is currently only possible for attributes that do
   not need to be used in search filters.
   The expressions are a subset of the double quoted string expressions in the
   Bourne (POSIX) shell.
   Instead of variable substitution, attribute lookups are done on the current
   entry and the attribute value is substituted.
   The following expressions are supported:
  </para>
  <variablelist remap="TP">
   <varlistentry>
    <term><literal>"${attr}"</literal> (or <literal>"$attr"</literal> for short)</term>
    <listitem><para>
     will substitute the value of the attribute
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term><literal>"${attr:-word}"</literal></term>
    <listitem><para>
     (use default) will substitute the value of the attribute or, if the
     attribute is not set or empty substitute the word
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term><literal>"${attr:+word}"</literal></term>
    <listitem><para>
     (use alternative) will substitute <literal>word</literal> if attribute
     is set, otherwise substitute the empty string
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry> <!-- since 0.9.7 -->
     <term><literal>"${attr:offset:length}"</literal></term>
     <listitem><para>
       will substitute <literal>length</literal> characters (actually
       bytes) starting from position <literal>offset</literal> (which
       is counted starting at zero); the substituted string is
       truncated if it is too long; in particular, it can be of length
       zero (if <literal>length</literal> is zero or
       <literal>offset</literal> falls out of the original string)
     </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry> <!-- since 0.9.0 -->
    <term><literal>"${attr#word}"</literal></term>
    <listitem><para>
     remove the shortest possible match of <literal>word</literal> from the
     left of the attribute value
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry> <!-- since 0.9.0 (pynslcd only) -->
    <term><literal>"${attr##word}"</literal></term>
    <listitem><para>
     remove the longest possible match of <literal>word</literal> from the
     left of the attribute value (<command>pynslcd</command> only)
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry> <!-- since 0.9.0 (pynslcd only) -->
    <term><literal>"${attr%word}"</literal></term>
    <listitem><para>
     remove the shortest possible match of <literal>word</literal> from the
     right of the attribute value (<command>pynslcd</command> only)
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry> <!-- since 0.9.0 (pynslcd only) -->
    <term><literal>"${attr%%word}"</literal></term>
    <listitem><para>
     remove the longest possible match of <literal>word</literal> from the
     right of the attribute value (<command>pynslcd</command> only)
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
  </variablelist>
  <para>
   Only the # matching expression is supported in <command>nslcd</command>
   and only with the ? wildcard symbol. The <command>pynslcd</command>
   implementation supports full matching.
  </para>
  <para>
   Quote (<literal>"</literal>), dollar (<literal>$</literal>) and
   backslash (<literal>\</literal>) characters should be escaped with a
   backslash (<literal>\</literal>).
  </para>
  <para>
   The expressions are inspected to automatically fetch the appropriate
   attributes from <acronym>LDAP</acronym>.
   Some examples to demonstrate how these expressions may be used in
   attribute mapping:
  </para>
  <variablelist remap="TP">
   <varlistentry>
    <term><literal>map shadow shadowFlag "${shadowFlag:-0}"</literal></term>
    <listitem><para>
     use the <literal>shadowFlag</literal> attribute, using the
     value 0 as default
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term><literal>map passd homeDirectory "${homeDirectory:-/home/$uid}"</literal></term>
    <listitem><para>
     use the <literal>uid</literal> attribute to build a
     <literal>homeDirectory</literal> value if that attribute is missing
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term><literal>map shadow shadowExpire "${isDisabled:+100}"</literal></term>
    <listitem><para>
     if the <literal>isDisabled</literal> attribute is set, return 100,
     otherwise leave value empty
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term><literal>map shadow userPassword "${userPassword#{crypt\}}"</literal></term>
    <listitem><para>
     strip the {crypt} prefix from the userPassword attribute, returning
     the raw hash value
    </para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
  </variablelist>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 id="files">
  <title>Files</title>
  <variablelist remap="TP">
   <varlistentry>
    <term><filename>/etc/nslcd.conf</filename></term>
    <listitem><para>the main configuration file</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
   <varlistentry>
    <term><filename>/etc/nsswitch.conf</filename></term>
    <listitem><para>Name Service Switch configuration file</para></listitem>
   </varlistentry>
  </variablelist>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 id="see_also">
  <title>See Also</title>
  <para>
   <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nslcd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
   <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nsswitch.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 id="author">
  <title>Author</title>
  <para>This manual was written by Arthur de Jong &lt;arthur@arthurdejong.org&gt;
        and is based on the
        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>nss_ldap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        manual developed by PADL Software Pty Ltd.</para>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>