ldb 7 ldb Lightweight DataBase DESCRIPTION Ldb is a library providing simple LDAP-like database system that can use either tdb or LDAP as its backend. It's internal API is similar to that of LDAP. ldb is used heavily in Samba 4. It's aim is to provide a LDAP-like database system at all times, even when no LDAP server is available. LDB URLS FIXME FUNCTIONS ldb_connect(2) Connect to an LDAP server or local LDB database stored in TDB. ldb_close(2) Close connection to the server. ldb_search(2) Search for specified attributes of records that match a LDAP-like search string. ldb_search_free(2) Free search results. ldb_add(2) Add records. ldb_modify(2) Modify records. ldb_delete(2) Delete records. ldb_errstring(2) Return extended error information from last call. ldb_casefold(2) Casefold a string. PERFORMANCE FIXME COMPATIBILITY WITH LDAP FIXME SEE ALSO ldap VERSION This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite. AUTHOR ldb was written by Andrew Tridgell. This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.