[JDEV] Pam support for Jabber 1.4.2

[Chris Pile]

I did update the PAM patch from the contrib area to work with
jabber-1.4.2 and I seem to remember emailing it to Peter Saint-Andre so
he could include it at: http://download.jabber.org/contrib/.  Guess it
never made it.  I still have it available on my site though:

 http://www.snoogans.co.uk/jabber/files/jabber-1.4.2-pam.README
 http://www.snoogans.co.uk/jabber/files/jabber-1.4.2-pam.tar.gz

Although I then went on to provide a better authentication mechanism for
Jabber using the official XDB "check" Authentication method as described
at: http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/1.4/142changelog.html

You can download the code at:
 http://www.snoogans.co.uk/jabber/index.htm#xdb_auth_cpile

It also supports IMAP, LDAP, MYSQL, PAM, POP3, RADIUS and SMB
authentication.

I did hear a rumour that xdb_auth_cpile was going to be mentioned in the
jabber docs, but not sure.


Thanks,
Chris Pile.


Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
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> Greetings
>         After poking around on various servers I found that there seemed to be no
> easy way to use pam to authenticate a jabber user.  So I went ahead and
> cleaned up some existing work to make a mod_auth_pam.c that fits right into
> the existing build and source tree.  Currently it consists of a small patch
> and the mod_auth_pam.c file.
> 
>         I am willing to clean this up and maintain this code, but I am unsure of how
> this is to get included into jabber source, or even if its allowed for that
> matter.  If someone would be kind enough to point me in the direction of
> protocol for this I would be very pleased.
> 
>         I have tested this patch so far on linux (suse and debian) and solaris 8.  It
> seems to work just fine, and am using it quite effectively with a 800 user NT
> network where the linux box running the jabber server is using smb_auth in
> pam.  This was key because this instalation is a school and they wanted a
> place for students to chat, but did not want to install and maintain a whole
> new server.  Using jabber and these patches they had a dropin solution.
> 
>         Cheers
>         -ian reinhart geiser
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