ejabberd - Comments for "How to run ejabberdctl from www-root?"

The ejabberd installation

mfoss — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:04:37 +0000

The ejabberd installation when using the source package assumes that only root can run ejabberdctl.

However, if you add the option

./configure --enable-user=somesystemuser

and then install it, then both root and somesystemuser will be able to run ejabberdctl.

I checked if it was possible to get any other system user to run ejabberdctl, by adding him to the somesystemuser group, but it didn't work:

$ /sbin/ejabberdctl
This command can only be run by root or the user somesystemuser

aaronwinborn — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:18:39 +0000

So now I added at the beginning,

putenv("HOME=/tmp");

and got:

array (
  'stdout' => 'RPC failed on the node ejabberd@vserver147: nodedown
',
  'stderr' => '',
  'return' => 3,
)

At least it's now at the same place as other users. So now the question is how to allow non-root users to run ejabberdctl...

aaronwinborn — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:08:06 +0000

and yes, i've also tried running the commands as root -- they execute properly.