On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:00:14AM -0700, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > > On a woody system I'm trying to configure jabberd. I installed the > > woody jabber package and have configured it using the info from > > www.jabber.org and in the associated documentation. I changed the > > hostname and spool location in the jabber.xml and jabber.cfg files, > > created the spool directory and changed its ownership to 'daemon', > > same as the uid that jabberd runs at. I've got the jabberd daemon > > running but it won't allow a user to create an account. In trying to > > work through the configuration procedure at www.jabber.org where you > > telnet into the machine and copy the xml clauses, it won't respond > > with the user login information. Anyway, does anyone have any hints as > > to how to fix this and get jabberd going? > > The version of jabber in woody has mod_auth_plain disabled, which is > needed by jabber for registering a user: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182050 > > This is corrected in testing and unstable. > > Additionally you only need to set the hostname and spool in jabber.cfg, > not in jabber.xml. The init script and cmdline flags in jabber.xml take > care of that for you. >
Thanks, that was it. I read the bug reports but didn't understand the significance of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
