Enable user registration - eJabberd

Question

I am a complete n00b to configuring Jabber/XMPP servers and I am hoping to get some help getting set up. I have done all of this and installed pidgin. I seem to be able set up my "admin-user" in pidgin no problem but when I try to register a new user I get a 403 Fobidden message back from pidgin.

Do I need to change the ejabberd.cfg file to allow users to register? If so how do I go about it? If not what do I need to get basic chat and fileshare going?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '12 at 02:19

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You have two options regarding user registration. You can either manually create user accounts on the server, or you can enable in-band registration, which allows anyone who can connect to the server to register an account.

If you want to create accounts manually, run this on the server for each user:

sudo ejabberdctl register <username> <domain> <password>

If you want to enable in-band registration, find the following line in /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg and change the deny to allow so that it looks like this.

{access, register, [{allow, all}]}.

answered May 21 '12 at 02:19

mgorven

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Awesome that worked thanks. Any info on how I can get registered uses to be able to chat?!! – travega May 21 '12 at 03:04
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The users need to add each other to their rosters, and should then be able to send messages. – mgorven May 21 '12 at 05:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 28 '12 at 20:51

Related to mgorven's answer above, here is a little script I use to dump useful information about registered users to stdout. The ejabberdctl dump command requires a file rather than stdout, which is why I do all the other nonsense below:

#!/bin/sh
sudo ejabberdctl dump /tmp/etmpdump.txt
sudo chown $LOGNAME /tmp/etmpdump.txt
grep "{passwd,{" </tmp/etmpdump.txt | sed -e 's/{passwd,{"//g;s/","/ /g;s/"},"/ /g;s/"}.//g' | sort
rm -f /tmp/etmpdump.txt

Enable user registration - eJabberd

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