SLAPO-DEREF(5) File Formats Manual SLAPO-DEREF(5)
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 con-
trol 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
OpenLDAP 2.6.10+dfsg-1 2025/05/22 SLAPO-DEREF(5)
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