SLAPD-WT(5)

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💖 SLAPD-WT(5) 💖

okay bestie, so this is a File Formats Manual page — the ✨ SLAPD-WT(5) ✨ one — and it's about the WiredTiger backend for slapd. Buckle up, it's short but it's spicy. 🌶️

✨ NAME ✨

slapd-wt — the WiredTiger backend to slapd. literally what it says on the tin, no notes 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

/etc/openldap/slapd.conf

like... that's the whole synopsis. it's giving "config file" energy. iconic. 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the wt backend to slapd(8) uses the WiredTiger database library to store data. that's the whole thing. slay. 💖

ngl though, hear me out: the wt backend is an experimental module, and it's got potential — highkey high write performance and high concurrency performance, fr fr. but it does NOT have some basic features yet. not me warning you twice: please back up your data using slapcat before you update the module. 🫶 i'm so serious. back it up. 🙈

👑 CONFIGURATION 👑

so these slapd.conf options apply to the wt backend database. and bestie, they have rules: they must follow a database wt line, and they have to come before any subsequent backend or database lines. order matters, iykyk. ✨

the other database options? those live over in the slapd.conf(5) manual page. not our problem here. 💅

  • directory <directory> — this is where the WiredTiger home directory containing this database and its associated indexes lives. every single database needs its own separate directory, no sharing. the default is /var/lib/openldap/openldap-data. 🏠
  • idlcache <boolean> — turns on the in-memory idlcache. the default is true. ✨
  • index {<attrlist>|default} [pres,eq,approx,sub,<special>] — sets the indexes to maintain for the given attribute (or list of attributes). some attributes only support a subset of indexes, which is so rude of them honestly. if you only give an <attr>, then whatever you set for default is what gets maintained. and heads up bestie: setting a default does not mean every attribute will be indexed, okay? also — for best performance, an eq index should always be configured for the objectClass attribute. always. periodt. 🔥
  • mode <integer> — plot twist: back-wt does not support the mode option. use umask instead. that's it, that's the option. 💀
  • wtconfig {create,cache_size=512M,async=(enabled)} — this specifies the configuration for wiredtiger, and this parameter gets passed to wiredtiger_open(3). handing it the aux cord, basically. 🎧
    • create — create the database if it does not exist. ✨
    • cache_size — the maximum heap memory to allocate for the cache. 💾
    • async — asynchronous operations configuration options. it's disabled by default. 🦋

🔥 ACCESS CONTROL 🔥

the wt backend honors access control semantics exactly as described in slapd.access(5). so you've got control, bestie. main character energy. 👑

🌈 FILES 🌈

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

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

slapd.conf(5), slapd-config(5), slapd(8), slapadd(8), slapcat(8), slapindex(8), slapmodify(8), and the WiredTiger documentation. go read them, they're all right there. 💜

🫶 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🫶

OpenLDAP Software is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project <http://www.openldap.org/>. OpenLDAP Software is derived from the University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release. and this page was Written by HAMANO Tsukasa <hamano@osstech.co.jp> — thank you bestie, we appreciate you. 🎀

and that's the whole vibe check — this was OpenLDAP 2.7.2, dated 2026/10/21. no cap, that's the tea ☕💖 bye babes, back up your databases ✨

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