[JDEV] Jabber Authentication w/ STunnel

[mark at mjwilcox.com]

Integrating anything with stunnel is trivial. You setup stunnel, tell it 
which port to listen on, which port to forward to and start. You 
simply point your client to the port stunnel is listening on and it 
initiates an SSL connection. We use it at work to support SSL over 
IMAP (and will be using to to support SSL for LDAP with xdbldap)

I think Jabber already has SSL support in the server (though I don't 
know if anyone has any docs on how to use it :), thus you don't 
need stunnel on the server. Except for jabbernaut (the Mac jabber 
client), none of the current clients support SSL, so stunnel makes 
a good (just about the only) option to add SSL support to the 
clients.

If you want to document how to do this, go right ahead! :)

Mark



On 1 Aug 00, at 9:49, Tyron Stading wrote:

> Has anyone considered using STunnel with Jabber?  What are the pros and cons
> of using this solution.  I was going to look into implementing it, but I
> wanted to see what people thought about it.
> Thanks.
> Tyron
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Mark Wilcox
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