SLAPD-NULL(5)

✨ SLAPD-NULL(5) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the File Formats Manual for slapd-null 💅 this is the manual page for the Null backend to slapd, and no cap, it's about to be your fave.

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🦋 NAME 🦋

slapd-null — the Null backend to slapd, and honestly? iconic.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

/etc/openldap/slapd.conf

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The Null backend to slapd(8) is surely the most useful part of slapd, and I will not be taking questions:

• Searches return success but no entries.
• Compares return compareFalse.
• Updates return success (unless readonly is on) but do nothing.
• Binds other than as the rootdn fail unless the database option "bind on" is given.
• The slapadd(8) and slapcat(8) tools are equally exciting.

Inspired by the /dev/null device. literally the blueprint 🫶

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🌸 CONFIGURATION 🌸

This slapd.conf option applies to the NULL backend database. That is, it must follow a database null line and come before any subsequent database lines. Other database options are described in the slapd.conf(5) manual page.

• bind <on/off> — allow binds as any DN in this backend's suffix, with any password. The default is "off". 💀 (yes, any password, I said what I said)
• dosearch <on/off> — if enabled, a single entry will be returned on all search requests. The entry's DN will be the same as the database suffix. The default is "off".

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✨ EXAMPLE ✨

Here is a possible slapd.conf extract using the Null backend:

database null
suffix   "cn=Nothing"
bind     on

slay. that's the whole vibe. 😌

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🔥 ACCESS CONTROL 🔥

The null backend does not honor any of the access control semantics described in slapd.access(5). not even a little. zero. none. periodt.

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/openldap/slapd.conf — default slapd configuration file

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

slapd.conf(5), slapd(8), slapadd(8), slapcat(8).

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and that's a wrap, bestie 🧚 this was brought to you by OpenLDAP 2.7.2, dated 2026/10/21 — go forth and return success while doing absolutely nothing, it's giving main character energy 💅✨🌈