It varies on the system or OS one is using.2.4.12 implementation looks at a few of these paths /etc/openldap/ldap.conf /etc/ldap.conf /ldaprc ./ldaprc any where you place will be good to go. Sankhadip ----- Original Message ----- From: Santosh Kumar To: openldap-technical Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:50 AM Subject: API to read config file before ldap_search. Dear friends, looking to where we could specify config file path to be read by ldapsearch.c to /openldap/ldap.conf will be trying to pass the query to ldapclient and obtain the result. should we write program starting from ldap_open , ldap_init, ldap_bind , ldap_search or its suffice only by modifying ldapsearch.c. Regards Santosh