.TH SLAPD-NULL 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION" .\" Copyright 2002-2009 The OpenLDAP Foundation. All Rights Reserved. .\" Copying restrictions apply. See COPYRIGHT/LICENSE. .\" $OpenLDAP: pkg/ldap/doc/man/man5/slapd-null.5,v 1.10.2.6 2009/06/03 01:41:57 quanah Exp $ .SH NAME slapd\-null \- Null backend to slapd .SH SYNOPSIS ETCDIR/slapd.conf .SH DESCRIPTION The Null backend to .BR slapd (8) is surely the most useful part of .BR slapd : .br - Searches return success but no entries. .br - Compares return compareFalse. .br - Updates return success (unless readonly is on) but do nothing. .br - Binds other than as the rootdn fail unless the database option "bind on" is given. .br - The .BR slapadd (8) and .BR slapcat (8) tools are equally exciting. .br Inspired by the /dev/null device. .SH CONFIGURATION This .B slapd.conf option applies to the NULL backend database. That is, it must follow a "database null" line and come before any subsequent "database" lines. Other database options are described in the .BR slapd.conf (5) manual page. .TP .B bind <on/off> Allow binds as any DN in this backend's suffix, with any password. The default is "off". .SH EXAMPLE Here is a possible slapd.conf extract using the Null backend: .LP .RS .nf database null suffix "cn=Nothing" bind on .fi .RE .SH ACCESS CONTROL The .B null backend does not honor any of the access control semantics described in .BR slapd.access (5). .SH FILES .TP ETCDIR/slapd.conf default slapd configuration file .SH SEE ALSO .BR slapd.conf (5), .BR slapd (8), .BR slapadd (8), .BR slapcat (8).