5. Configuring slapd Once the software has been built and installed, you are ready to configure slapd(8) for use at your site. OpenLDAP 2.3 and later have transitioned to using a dynamic runtime configuration engine, slapd-config(5). slapd-config(5) is fully LDAP-enabled is managed using the standard LDAP operations stores its configuration data in an LDIF database, generally in the /usr/local/etc