Re: Connection to slapd on localhost

["Pierangelo Masarati" <ando@sys-net.it>]

> Hello,
> Is there a way to connect to slapd via a local socket?  Not via an ip
> address?  To be more precise, does slapd offer a way to connect to it
> like that of MySQL's "/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock" (or, /tmp/mysql.sock)
> connection option?
>
> We have an application that queries/searches LDAP and it runs on the
> same system as slapd.  I would prefer not to use a TCP connection for
> the ldap lookup since this can be a lot of lookups.
>
> If the answer is obvious, I've totally missed it.
> Thanks for your time and thoughts.

start slapd with -h ldapi://<socket_path> (remember to urlescape
the path, i.e. use %2F for '/'

Pierangelo.

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Pierangelo Masarati
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