NAME

       slapo-memberof - Reverse Group Membership overlay to slapd

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/ldap/slapd.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The memberof overlay to slapd(8) allows automatic reverse group membership maintenance.  Any time a group
       entry  is  modified,  its members are modified as appropriate in order to keep a DN-valued "is member of"
       attribute updated with the DN of the group.

       Note that this  overlay  is  deprecated  and  support  will  be  dropped  in  future  OpenLDAP  releases.
       Installations  should  use the dynlist overlay instead. Using this overlay in a replicated environment is
       especially discouraged.

CONFIGURATION

       The config directives that are specific to the memberof overlay must be prefixed by memberof-,  to  avoid
       potential conflicts with directives specific to the underlying database or to other stacked overlays.

       overlay memberof
              This directive adds the memberof overlay to the current database; see slapd.conf(5) for details.

       The following slapd.conf configuration options are defined for the memberof overlay.

       memberof-group-oc <group-oc>
              The  value  <group-oc>  is  the name of the objectClass that triggers the reverse group membership
              update.  It defaults to groupOfNames.

       memberof-member-ad <member-ad>
              The value <member-ad> is the name of the attribute that contains the names of the members  in  the
              group objects; it must be DN-valued.  It defaults to member.

       memberof-memberof-ad <memberof-ad>
              The  value  <memberof-ad>  is  the  name of the attribute that contains the names of the groups an
              entry is member of; it must be DN-valued.  Its contents are automatically updated by the  overlay.
              It defaults to memberOf.

       memberof-dn <dn>
              The  value <dn> contains the DN that is used as modifiersName for internal modifications performed
              to update the reverse group membership.  It defaults to the rootdn of the underlying database.

       memberof-dangling {ignore, drop, error}
              This option determines the behavior of the overlay when,  during  a  modification,  it  encounters
              dangling  references.   The default is ignore, which may leave dangling references.  Other options
              are drop, which discards those modifications that would result in dangling references, and  error,
              which causes modifications that would result in dangling references to fail.

       memberof-dangling-error <error-code>
              If  memberof-dangling  is  set  to  error,  this configuration parameter can be used to modify the
              response code returned in case of violation.  It defaults to  "constraint  violation",  but  other
              implementations are known to return "no such object" instead.

       memberof-refint {true|FALSE}
              This  option determines whether the overlay will try to preserve referential integrity or not.  If
              set to TRUE, when an entry containing values of the "is member  of"  attribute  is  modified,  the
              corresponding groups are modified as well.

       The  memberof overlay may be used with any backend that provides full read-write functionality, but it is
       mainly intended for use with local storage backends. The maintenance operations it performs are  internal
       to  the  server  on  which the overlay is configured and are never replicated. Consumer servers should be
       configured with their own instances of the memberOf overlay if it is desired to maintain  these  memberOf
       attributes on the consumers.  Note that slapo-memberOf is not compatible with syncrepl based replication,
       and  should  not  be  used in a replicated environment. An alternative is to use slapo-dynlist to emulate
       slapo-memberOf behavior.

FILES

       /etc/ldap/slapd.conf
              default slapd configuration file

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY

       The memberof overlay has been reworked with the 2.5 release to use a consistent namespace as  with  other
       overlays.  As  a  side-effect  the following cn=config parameters are deprecated and will be removed in a
       future release: olcMemberOf is replaced with olcMemberOfConfig

SEE ALSO

       slapo-dynlist(5), slapd.conf(5),  slapd-config(5),  slapd(8).   The  slapo-memberof(5)  overlay  supports
       dynamic configuration via back-config.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       This module was written in 2005 by Pierangelo Masarati for SysNet s.n.c.

OpenLDAP 2.6.7+dfsg-1~exp1ubuntu8.2                2024/01/29                                  SLAPO-MEMBEROF(5)