I did try it with bare JIDs. The sender is an admin. But even then it failed. The server (ejabberd) sent an error message. <div> </div><div>/andy</div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Sergey Dobrov <<a href="mailto:binary@jrudevels.org" target="_blank">binary@jrudevels.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/05/2012 06:16 PM, Kim Alvefur wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"> On 2012-12-05 11:00, andy nes wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hey, I have a pubsub node, to which publishers publish their updates. As an admin and node owner, I want some users to subscribe to the node. I want to do that in the backend using the web admin so that the first time the users login using their jid, they start receiving the published items from the node. Is this possible? </blockquote> </div> The protocol doesn't make it impossible for someone with sufficient privileges to subscribe someone else, see <a href="http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html#subscriber-subscribe" target="_blank">http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html#subscriber-subscribe</a> And the server can of course do whatever it wishes to the subscription list. </blockquote> Hm, interesting note, it seems you're right. But don't sure if ejabberd supports this trick: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> If the bare JID portions of the JIDs do not match as described above and the requesting entity does not have some kind of admin or proxy privilege as defined by the implementation, the service MUST return a <bad-request/> error, which SHOULD also include a pubsub-specific error condition of <invalid-jid/>. </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> -- Regards, Kim "Zash" Alvefur<div class="im"> _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Info: <a href="http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev" target="_blank">http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev</a> Unsubscribe: <a href="mailto:JDev-unsubscribe@jabber.org" target="_blank">JDev-unsubscribe@jabber.org</a> _______________________________________________ </div></blockquote><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> -- With best regards, Sergey Dobrov, XMPP Developer and JRuDevels.org founder. _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Info: <a href="http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev" target="_blank">http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev</a> Unsubscribe: <a href="mailto:JDev-unsubscribe@jabber.org" target="_blank">JDev-unsubscribe@jabber.org</a> _______________________________________________ </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>