how to configure open ldap to work on localhost

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You can put whatever you want. Suffix has nothing to do with what IPs/interfaces slapd listens on. Suffix is the top level of the data tree, it doesn't have to be DNS/network names. Think of it as your database name. So while you could use:

suffix "dc=localhost,dc=localdomain"

suffix "dc=example,dc=com"

you could also use:

suffix "dc=my,dc=ldap"

You can have more than two parts if you want

suffix "dc=my,dc=ldap,dc=server"

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Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

Itay Moav -Malimovka over 1 year
From the documentation:
Use your favorite editor to edit the provided slapd.conf(5) example (usually installed as /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf) to contain a BDB database definition of the form:
```
  database bdb
  suffix "dc=<MY-DOMAIN>,dc=<COM>"
  rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=<MY-DOMAIN>,dc=<COM>"
  rootpw secret
  directory /usr/local/var/openldap-data
```
But, my domain is either 127.0.1.1 or localhost,
What should I put instead of MY-DOMAIN and in COM ?
Phil P over 14 years

Since dc explicitly means domain-component, and is for those new-fangled DNS users who think that Internet domains matter :) you could always revert to an old-style setup based on components other than dc=. This has the advantage of not causing confusion when systems try to locate servers with SRV records based on the dc path.