NAME

       nslcd - local LDAP name service daemon

SYNOPSIS

       nslcd [options]

DESCRIPTION

       nslcd  is  a  daemon  that will do LDAP queries for local processes that want to do user, group and other
       naming lookups (NSS) or do user authentication, authorisation or password modification (PAM).

       nslcd is configured through a configuration file (see nslcd.conf(5)).

       See the included README for information on configuring the LDAP server.

OPTIONS

       nslcd accepts the following options:

       -c, --check
              Check if the daemon is running.  This causes nslcd to return 0 if the daemon  is  already  running
              and 1 if it is not.

       -d, --debug
              Enable  debugging  mode.   nslcd will not put itself in the background and sends verbose debugging
              info to stderr.  nslcd will handle connections as usual.  This option is  for  debugging  purposes
              only.   Specify this option multiple times to also include more detailed logging from the LDAP li‐
              brary.

       -n, --nofork
              Do not fork or daemonise and run nslcd in the foreground.

       -f, --config FILE
              Parse the supplied configuration file in place of the default /etc/nslcd.conf file.

       -t, --test
              Validate the configuration and exit. This performs syntax checking of  the  configuration,  checks
              for  presence  of files referred in the configuration and does some minimal other sanity checking.
              This causes nslcd to return 0 if the configuration appears valid and 1 if it is not.

       --help Display short help and exit.

       -V, --version
              Output version information and exit.

SIGNALS

       SIGTERM/SIGINT
              Cancel any running queries and exit.

       SIGUSR1
              Cause nslcd to retry any failing  connections  to  the  LDAP  server,  regardless  of  the  recon‐
              nect_sleeptime and reconnect_retrytime options.

FILES

       /etc/nslcd.conf - the configuration file (see nslcd.conf(5))

SEE ALSO

       nslcd.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       This manual was written by Arthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org>.

Version 0.9.13                                      Feb 2025                                            nslcd(8)