[jadmin] SASL issues

[xyon]

FYI, latest (2.1.22) seems to solve some sasl compile problems I was
having. Might be worth checking out.

Nice work guys.


On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 14:55 -0500, xyon wrote:
> I had a hard time getting the latest JabberD2 (2.1.20) to compile with
> cyrus-sasl, and just fell back to using gsasl. We have no need for
> anything more than SASL-PLAIN auth since I enforce TLS/SSL encryption
> and use a pipe-auth script to compare MD5 hashes of the passwords in the
> database.
> 
> I'd be more than willing to share my pipe-auth if anyone is interested.
> 
> On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:31 +0000, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> > On 14 Jan 2008, at 18:45, Bob Larsen wrote:
> > 
> > > I have compiled and installed jabberd, can launch it, but am having  
> > > issues registering users.  When attempting to register a user, the  
> > > client throws an error (error varies with client).
> > >
> > gsasl's DIGEST-MD5 implementation doesn't really do the 'be liberal  
> > in what you accept' thing, and as such is incompatible with a large  
> > number of currently deployed Jabber clients. If you can't dictate to  
> > your users which clients they use, you're out of luck.
> > 
> > Jabberd2 does have a Cyrus SASL implementation too, but I haven't  
> > been as proactive in maintaining this as I would like, and it may not  
> > work in current releases. I'm not sure when I'll have time to check  
> > this out properly, and I'm also not sure for how much longer I'll be  
> > (professionally) interested in maintaining it - I suspect we'll  
> > strongly consider transitioning to a Jabber server with a supported,  
> > stable, SASL implementation at our next major upgrade. gsasl is  
> > pretty much useless from an enterprise perspective.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Simon.
> > 
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