[jdev] External auth in Jabber2

[David Ramsey]

My original message seems to have vanished (or my newsreading skills 
need work!), so I'll try again:

Jabber 1.4 had this nice "accept" mechanism that made it easy to write 
external authentication modules. The Jabber Developer's Handbook has a 
simple example that works as a starting point.

Jabberd 2 seems to have gravitated towards a "compiled in C" pluggable 
module model. However, legacy "accept" modules are still supported, and 
I've gotten my existing authentication module to connect to the router 
successfully.

What I can't figure out how to do is configure Jabber 2.0 so that it 
routes authentication requests to my module. The "<authreg>" section in 
c2s.xml seems a reasonable place to look. But the sparse Jabber 2 docs 
also mention that legacy components should be registered in the "items" 
section of sm.xml.

I'm confused. Can I actually use my existing external auth module with 
Jabber 2, or do I have to port it all to C? I'd prefer to avoid PAM if 
possible.

-- David Ramsey