ejabberd - Comments for "User registration"

OK Thanks. I will have to

mprokop — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:21:48 +0000

OK Thanks. I will have to make some changes on our end.

Hello, No this is no how it

mremond — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 12:54:50 +0000

Hello,

No this is no how it works. When you delegate authentication to PAM, user are not created / copied in database. It is queried each time authentication is needed.

So there is no way to

mprokop — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:41:54 +0000

So there is no way to register the users against the server as they log in?

Say I have a authentication server with 10k users on it and that the PAM module points to it, only 500ish will ever use chat. Everytime a user logs onto chat for the first time, it registers the account on the ejabberd server. This way when I have other applications call 'ejabberdctl registered-users' it only gives the 500 or so that use chat rather than the 10k.
Is this possible in any way?

pam backend is read-only. You

mremond — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 09:29:35 +0000

pam backend is read-only. You can only authenticate with it. ejabberd does not have the right to add users when you use that.

so I have found that if I

mprokop — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 19:06:53 +0000

so I have found that if I change my config file to use only ODBC it will work fine.

##auth_method: [odbc, pam]
auth_method: odbc

The problem is that I want to use PAM as well. Any suggestions?