Problem with Jabberd and PAM Auth on Fedora-10

[Derek Atkins]

Greg,

Quoting Gregory Boyce <gboyce-qL0WqcyiFk9Wk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org>:

> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to set up a JabberD service on a fully up to date Fedora 10
>> system but it's not working.  I did the minimal configuration required
>> as per the docs I found online (mainly changing the Jabber ID of the
>> server in sm.xml and c2s.xml, changing the JID of the admin user, and
>> creating a self-signed certificate with the correct server JID).
>
> I'm not sure if you've seen this link or not:
>
> http://codex.xiaoka.com/wiki/jabberd2:pam?s[]=jabberd&s[]=pam

No, I had not....

> The part I'd specifically look at is disabling the forms of SASL auth 
> which require access to the plain text password on the server side 
> (cram-md5, digest-md5, etc).

Aha!  Actually I did NOT have to turn those off to get it to work.
HOWEVER, I did need to change the sysconfig to get c2s to run as root.
THAT fixed it.  Thank you!

> On a somewhat related note, have you looked at ejabberd and Openfire? 
> I looked at a number of XMPP servers for work a while back, and both 
> of those impressed me quite a bit.  I ended up using Openfire since 
> it ties in to Active Directory very well.

Only Marginally.  ejabberd wanted to pull in 50MB of stuff, and I
never looked at OpenFire.  I don't believe OF is provided as an RPM
in Fedora, whereas I could just 'yum install jabberd' (or ejabberd,
but as I said that wanted to pull in 50MB of dependencies, vs. only 1.6MB
for what I have).

I've got it all working now, thank you!!!!!!

HOURS of googling and I only get the answer when I email this list.
Thank you.  Seriously, I've been working on this all day!

I owe you a beer, Greg!

> Greg

-derek

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