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diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapo-chain.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapo-chain.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..37804f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/man/man5/slapo-chain.5 @@ -0,0 +1,152 @@ +.TH SLAPO-CHAIN 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION" +.\" Copyright 1998-2021 The OpenLDAP Foundation, All Rights Reserved. +.\" Copying restrictions apply. See the COPYRIGHT file. +.\" $OpenLDAP$ +.SH NAME +slapo\-chain \- chain overlay to slapd +.SH SYNOPSIS +ETCDIR/slapd.conf +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B chain +overlay to +.BR slapd (8) +allows automatic referral chasing. +Any time a referral is returned (except for bind operations), +it is chased by using an instance of the ldap backend. +If operations are performed with an identity (i.e. after a bind), +that identity can be asserted while chasing the referrals +by means of the \fIidentity assertion\fP feature of back-ldap +(see +.BR slapd\-ldap (5) +for details), which is essentially based on the +.B proxied authorization +control [RFC 4370]. +Referral chasing can be controlled by the client by issuing the +\fBchaining\fP control +(see \fIdraft-sermersheim-ldap-chaining\fP for details.) + +.LP +The config directives that are specific to the +.B chain +overlay are prefixed by +.BR chain\- , +to avoid potential conflicts with directives specific to the underlying +database or to other stacked overlays. + +.LP +There are very few chain overlay specific directives; however, directives +related to the instances of the \fIldap\fP backend that may be implicitly +instantiated by the overlay may assume a special meaning when used +in conjunction with this overlay. They are described in +.BR slapd\-ldap (5), +and they also need to be prefixed by +.BR chain\- . + +Note: this overlay is built into the \fIldap\fP backend; it is not +a separate module. + +.TP +.B overlay chain +This directive adds the chain overlay to the current backend. +The chain overlay may be used with any backend, but it is mainly +intended for use with local storage backends that may return referrals. +It is useless in conjunction with the \fIslapd\-ldap\fP and \fIslapd\-meta\fP +backends because they already exploit the libldap specific referral chase +feature. +[Note: this may change in the future, as the \fBldap\fP(5) and +\fBmeta\fP(5) backends might no longer chase referrals on their own.] +.TP +.B chain\-cache\-uri {FALSE|true} +This directive instructs the \fIchain\fP overlay to cache +connections to URIs parsed out of referrals that are not predefined, +to be reused for later chaining. +These URIs inherit the properties configured for the underlying +\fBslapd\-ldap\fP(5) before any occurrence of the \fBchain\-uri\fP +directive; basically, they are chained anonymously. +.TP +.B chain\-chaining [resolve=<r>] [continuation=<c>] [critical] +This directive enables the \fIchaining\fP control +(see \fIdraft-sermersheim-ldap-chaining\fP for details) +with the desired resolve and continuation behaviors and criticality. +The \fBresolve\fP parameter refers to the behavior while discovering +a resource, namely when accessing the object indicated by the request DN; +the \fBcontinuation\fP parameter refers to the behavior while handling +intermediate responses, which is mostly significant for the search +operation, but may affect extended operations that return intermediate +responses. +The values \fBr\fP and \fBc\fP can be any of +.BR chainingPreferred , +.BR chainingRequired , +.BR referralsPreferred , +.BR referralsRequired . +If the \fBcritical\fP flag affects the control criticality if provided. +[This control is experimental and its support may change in the future.] +.TP +.B chain\-max\-depth <n> +In case a referral is returned during referral chasing, further chasing +occurs at most \fB<n>\fP levels deep. Set to \fB1\fP (the default) +to disable further referral chasing. +.TP +.B chain\-return\-error {FALSE|true} +In case referral chasing fails, the real error is returned instead +of the original referral. In case multiple referral URIs are present, +only the first error is returned. This behavior may not be always +appropriate nor desirable, since failures in referral chasing might be +better resolved by the client (e.g. when caused by distributed +authentication issues). +.TP +.B chain\-uri <ldapuri> +This directive instantiates a new underlying \fIldap\fP database +and instructs it about which URI to contact to chase referrals. +As opposed to what stated in \fBslapd\-ldap\fP(5), only one URI +can appear after this directive; all subsequent \fBslapd\-ldap\fP(5) +directives prefixed by \fBchain\-\fP refer to this specific instance +of a remote server. +.LP + +Directives for configuring the underlying ldap database may also +be required, as shown in this example: +.LP +.RS +.nf +overlay chain +chain\-rebind\-as\-user FALSE + +chain\-uri "ldap://ldap1.example.com" +chain\-rebind\-as\-user TRUE +chain\-idassert\-bind bindmethod="simple" + binddn="cn=Auth,dc=example,dc=com" + credentials="secret" + mode="self" + +chain\-uri "ldap://ldap2.example.com" +chain\-idassert\-bind bindmethod="simple" + binddn="cn=Auth,dc=example,dc=com" + credentials="secret" + mode="none" + +.fi +.RE +.LP +Any valid directives for the ldap database may be used; see +.BR slapd\-ldap (5) +for details. +Multiple occurrences of the \fBchain\-uri\fP directive may appear, +to define multiple "trusted" URIs where operations with +\fIidentity assertion\fP are chained. +All URIs not listed in the configuration are chained anonymously. +All \fBslapd\-ldap\fP(5) directives appearing before the first +occurrence of \fBchain\-uri\fP are inherited by all URIs, +unless specifically overridden inside each URI configuration. +.SH FILES +.TP +ETCDIR/slapd.conf +default slapd configuration file +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR slapd.conf (5), +.BR slapd\-config (5), +.BR slapd\-ldap (5), +.BR slapd (8). +.SH AUTHOR +Originally implemented by Howard Chu; extended by Pierangelo Masarati. |