run slapd as nonroot-user

[William L Anderson <band@wrc.xerox.com>]

Sahlke, Jan writes:
 > I want to run the "slapd"-daemon as nonroot-user. But to start the daemon, I
 > must have root privileges to bind on port 389 (<1024).
 > 
 > Does somebody know a workaround, to run the daemon als nonroot-user or to
 > bind the ldap-server on another port than 389?

 /usr/local/libexec/slapd -p <port-number>

where port-number > 1024 (and slapd is installed in
/usr/local/libexec) should work.

Bill A