SLAPD-PASSWD(5)

🌸 SLAPD-PASSWD 💅

okay bestie so this is the manual page for slapd-passwd, living in the File Formats Manual zone ✨ and it's literally the /etc/passwd backend to slapd, no cap 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

slapd-passwd — the /etc/passwd backend to slapd 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

/etc/openldap/slapd.conf

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the PASSWD backend for slapd(8) serves up all the user account info listed in your system's passwd(5) file 🌸 that's the whole vibe.

real talk: this backend is provided for demonstration purposes only 🙈 like it's cute for messing around, but it is not the main character for production, iykyk.

the DN of each entry is:

"uid=<username>,<suffix>"

which is giving very straightforward, very demure 🎀

also super important: non-base searches scan the entire passwd file 😭 so this backend is best suited for hosts with small passwd files. if your passwd file is a whole novel, bestie… reconsider 💀

🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

this slapd.conf option applies to the PASSWD backend database, periodt ✨ which means it must follow a "database passwd" line and come before any subsequent "backend" or "database" lines 🫶 order matters, she's strict like that 💅

other database options are described in the slapd.conf(5) manual page, go check her out 💜

⭐ Options ⭐

• file <filename> — specifies an alternate passwd file to use 🌈 the default is /etc/passwd ✨

🔥 ACCESS CONTROL 🔥

ngl this part is important and a little iconic in a chaotic way: the passwd backend does not honor any of the access control semantics described in slapd.access(5) 😳

the only thing honored is read (=r) access to the entry pseudo-attribute and to the other attribute values of the entries returned by the search operation — and that honor is performed by the frontend, not by this backend 🧚

so basically: don't come here expecting the full access-control slay. she's on a limited menu 💀

🌸 FILES 🌸

• /etc/openldap/slapd.conf — default slapd configuration file 🎀
• /etc/passwd — user account information 🦋

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

slapd.conf(5), slapd(8), passwd(5) 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 🫶 this was OpenLDAP 2.7.2, dated 2026/10/21 — go forth and configure responsibly 💅✨