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Re: Authenticating Ejabberd against a Ruby On Rails database

Vladimir — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:58:31 -0000

Do you know ejabberd has the ability to send a copy of a message to the external app/script or to another account (as CC:)?
Thanks.

Re: Authenticating Ejabberd against a Ruby On Rails database

Vladimir — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:13:30 -0000

I have resolved this problem :)

Re: Authenticating Ejabberd against a Ruby On Rails database

Vladimir — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:02 -0000

Before I switched to odbc authentication (using mysql db) and then I commended all other auth methods instead of 'external' one.
As I see script is called everytime when I start ejabberd service. I added logging all actions into file what are performed by this script:
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File.open('/var/lib/ejabberd/auth.log', "w+") do |f|
f.write("Starting authentication ...\n")
........
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When I start the service I see the zero-length log-file. So script was started but it is failed. After this script is not called (I remove log-file and try to connect by Psi and log-file is not created anymore).

Btw, I have changed 'ejabberd' user shell to /bin/bash

Re: Authenticating Ejabberd against a Ruby On Rails database

julien51 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:11:18 -0000

Hi Vladimir,

I had the same kind of problem when I forgot to comment the "default" authentication lines ;-)

Re: Authenticating Ejabberd against a Ruby On Rails database

Vladimir — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:55:53 -0000

Thank you for the post.

Just now I am trying to add external auth for ejabberd against ruby on rails but I always get the following error message: "Authentication Error: No appropriate mechanism available for given security settings " (I use Psi as a client app).
The first I tried to use your script w/o changes (connection settings were changed :) ).
Then I have changed code of your script to more simple: remove all requires and simply return 1 for 'auth' and 'isuser'. But the issue appears as well.

ejabberd.cfg settings:
{auth_method, external}.
{extauth_program, "/var/lib/ejabberd/bin/ejabberd-auth-simple.rb"}.

Could you help me and advise who can I resolve this issue? Thanks.

Re: Authenticating Ejabberd against a Ruby On Rails database

julien51 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:33:30 -0000

Tssstssstss! Come on, isn't Ruby a wonderful language that you can almost read like English?

Re: Authenticating Ejabberd against a Ruby On Rails database

Le Tribulateur — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:50:45 -0000

Trop barbu comme sujet pour que je m'imisce.
I stay out of this Egghead topic...