<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"> <appendix> <title>Typical OpenLDAP settings</title> <para>Some basic hints to configure the OpenLDAP server:</para> <para><emphasis id="size_limit_exceeded" role="bold">Size limit:</emphasis></para> <para>You will get a message like "LDAP sizelimit exceeded, not all entries are shown." when you hit the LDAP search limit.</para> <para>OpenLDAP allows by default 500 return values per search, if you have more users/groups/hosts please change this:</para> <para>slapd.conf:</para> <para>e.g. "sizelimit 10000" or "sizelimit -1" for unlimited return values</para> <para>slapd.d:</para> <para>e.g. "olcSizeLimit: 10000" or "olcSizeLimit: -1" for unlimited return values in /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config.ldif</para> <literallayout> </literallayout> <para><emphasis id="a_openldap_unique" role="bold">Unique attributes:</emphasis></para> <para>There are cases where you do not want that same attribute values exist multiple times in your database. A good example are UID/GID numbers.</para> <para>OpenLDAP provides the <ulink url="http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/overlays.html">attribute uniqueness overlay</ulink> for this task.</para> <para>Example to force unique UID numbers:</para> <para>In <emphasis>/etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/cn=module{0}.ldif</emphasis> add "olcModuleLoad: {3}unique" (replace "3" with the highest existing number plus one).</para> <para>Now in /etc/ldap/slapd.d/cn=config/olcDatabase={1}bdb.ldif add e.g. "olcUniqueURI: ldap:///?uidNumber?sub"</para> <literallayout> </literallayout> <para id="indices"><emphasis role="bold">Indices:</emphasis></para> <para>Indices will improve the performance when searching for entries in the LDAP directory. The following indices are recommended:</para> <simplelist> <member>index objectClass eq</member> <member>index default sub</member> <member>index uidNumber eq</member> <member>index gidNumber eq</member> <member>index memberUid eq</member> <member>index cn,sn,uid,displayName pres,sub,eq</member> <member># Samba 3.x</member> <member>index sambaSID eq</member> <member>index sambaPrimaryGroupSID eq</member> <member>index sambaDomainName eq</member> </simplelist> </appendix>