Anonymous

mfoss — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:46:00 +0000

Anonymous wrote:

I've been trying to install ejabberd with pam authentication.
I compiled everyting as described here:
http://www.ejabberd.im/pam

There are three different contributed patches that (try to) implement PAM auth in ejabberd. None of them is yet included in ejabberd SVN. From what I know, the best of them technically speaking is this one: Authenticate Against PAM (alternate version), and is being reviewed to be included in ejabberd before the next release is published (see bug tracker issue). The bad news is that the patch is built against ejabberd SVN, so you may need to make small changes to apply it to ejabberd 1.1.x.

Anonymous wrote:

if I type 'ejabberdctl' I get
{"init terminating in do_boot",{badarg,[{ets,match_object,[ejabberd_ctl_cmds,'_']},{ets,tab2list,1},{ejabberd_ctl,print_usage,0},{ejabberd_ctl,start,0},{init,start_it,1},{init,start_em,1}]}}

Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
init terminating in do_boot ()

In ejabberd 1.1.x, probably the script ejabberdctl is not installed in the right path.

Anonymous wrote:

and if I type 'ejabberdctl myusername@myservername.tld' I get
RPC failed on the node 'myusername@servernam.tld': nodedown

=ERROR REPORT==== 17-Aug-2007::23:20:05 ===
** System NOT running to use fully qualified hostnames **
** Hostname myservername.tld is illegal **

incidentaly
hostname -s gives myservername and hostname -f gives myservername.tld

Maybe this works: ejabberdctl myservername

Anonymous wrote:

%%% Add new auth method
{auth_method, [internal, pam]}.

%%% Default pam service "login" can be change
%{pam_service, "login"}.
%%% Default pam prompt "Password:" can be change
%{pam_prompt_pwd, "Password:"}.

% Host name:
{hosts, ["myservername.tld"]}.

Please note that the lines with pam configuration are commented. Uncomment them and try again. Or try the pam patch that I linked before.

Anonymous wrote:

When I try to connect to the server with kopete and use myusername@myservername.tld and my password:
I(<0.306.0>:ejabberd_c2s:417): ({tlssock,#Port<0.352>,#Port<0.356>}) Failed legacy authentication for myusername@myservername.tld/Kopete

is PAM even coming to play here?

Probably no, because PAM was not completely configured. Remove the % characters and try again :)

Anonymous wrote:

PS how exactly do I have to change the line

  {5280, ejabberd_http,    [http_poll, web_admin]},

to get http://localhost:5280 to work but not http://myservername.tld:5280
as in http://www.ejabberd.im/node/1674

As explained in the ejabberd Guide, this configuration should do what you want:

  {5280, ejabberd_http,    [http_poll, web_admin, {ip, {127, 0, 0, 1}} ]},

ejabberd - Comments for "many problems: pam / hostname / ejabberctl crash"

Anonymous