SLAPO-COLLECT(5) File Formats Manual SLAPO-COLLECT(5)

# [NAME](#NAME)

slapo-collect - Collective attributes overlay to slapd

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

/etc/openldap/slapd.conf

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

The collect overlay is used to provide a relatively coarse implementation of RFC 3671 collective attributes. In X.500, a collective attribute is "a user attribute whose values are the same for each member of an entry collection".

Collective attributes are added to entries returned by a search operation when the entry is within the scope of the related ancestor. Collective attributes can only be modified when the modification affects the related ancestor.

# [CONFIGURATION](#CONFIGURATION)

This **slapd.conf** option applies to the collect overlay. It should appear after the **overlay** directive.

[**collectinfo <DN> <attrlist>**](#collectinfo)

Specify the **DN** of the ancestor entry and the set of related collective attributes, where **attrlist** is a comma-separated list of attributes. The **DN** should be within the naming context of the database.

# [FILES](#FILES)

/etc/openldap/slapd.conf

default slapd configuration file

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**slapd.conf**(5)](/man/enterprise-packages/openldap-2.6/slapd.conf.5), [**slapd-config**(5)](/man/enterprise-packages/openldap-2.6/slapd-config.5), The [**slapo-collect**(5)](/man/enterprise-packages/openldap-2.6/slapo-collect.5) overlay supports dynamic configuration via **back-config**.

# [ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS](#ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS)

This module was written in 2003 by Howard Chu. This man page was written in 2008 by Pierangelo Masarati. **OpenLDAP Software** is developed and maintained by The OpenLDAP Project <http://www.openldap.org/>. **OpenLDAP Software** is derived from the University of Michigan LDAP 3.3 Release.

2026/10/21 OpenLDAP 2.6.16

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Document: slapo-collect(5) from openldap-2.6 2.6.16-r1 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap.git