[jadmin] Authentication and rosters

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:50:36PM +0100, Chris Billett wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm wrestling with a jabberd 1.4 server at the moment, with my biggest 
> problem being that of user to user authentication. Is there a way that 
> you can enable all users to be automatically authorised to see each 
> other when created, within a particular server? i.e. not have to add 
> each other to their rosters and wait for authorisation?
> 
> I don't (necessarily) need global rosters, as we have a standardised 
> username format, but what I do need is to not have to log on as each one 
> and add them to each others' lists in iChat (or another client).

Typically this is done via global rosters / shared groups. I think
there's a way to do that in jabberd 1.4 but Matthias would know best.

/psa