> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:jdev-admin@;jabber.org]On Behalf Of > Bart van Bragt > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [JDEV] Jabber and user database
> Curious if someone else can tell us how (non-)trivial it would be to > link jabberd to another user database. I recently did this for the UCSD ActiveCampus project (the students don't know yet though) - link our web-based system that had its own concept of buddies, IM, etc. to Jabber, so it could use Jabber like an IM appendage while our system remains the primary 'server'. In our case it was a bit more complicated, as I needed to mirror and forward login/status/messages from users logged in to our web-based system, and users logged in via Jabber, and possibly both at the same time. The 'use the accounts in our PHP goo' part was pretty easy though, especially if you're ok with Jabber having its own datastore for Jabbery stuff, as then you don't need to rewrite the xdb layer. I wouldn't reccomend messing with xdb much if you don't have to; mods to xdb_sql and such are almost certainly overkill. I added a SOAP API to our PHP system using nusoap so I'd have a way to auth users, took a stripped-down mod_auth_plain.c and converted it to compile clean as C++, added a link to EasySoap (C++) to make SOAP calls to our PHP code, and modified the auth mapi function to check with our server via SOAP if an account was valid or not. One gotcha is that Jabber seems to expect to know the plaintext password of the user, but many sites only store hashes. I modified the xdb layer to always just return a junk string on auth get, since it's not really needed anyway with this hack due to the SOAP call in the auth module. If you're in my situation and don't know their plaintext password, make sure to disable (comment out) all the other auth/registration modules. The only client that seems to have a hard time with forced plaintext is PSI, where you need to specifically say to use plaintext (bug or security feature?). _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
