[TriLUG] IM (Jabber and others... doing windows)

[Jason White]

* Tanner Lovelace (clubjuggler at gmail.com) [060906 09:36]:
> On 9/6/06, Chris Knowles <chrisk at trilug.org> wrote:
> >So I immediately thought of Jabber.  I played with jabber on the trilug
> >servers back when it first came up... but I wanted to know if it was
> >possible to get a (any) jabber server to authenticate users against a
> >windows 2003 domain?  (I found reference to a module smbauth, which
> >appears defunct.  and to openldap auth, which I can't find concrete
> >examples of working with windows.)
> 
> Have you looked at ejabberd?  They support ldap, but it looks like you
> might need to add one small patch to get full active directory support.

ejabberd works out of the box with LDAP (including AD).  We did not
use any patches, and it works fine.  

> 
> Features: http://ejabberd.jabber.ru/features
> AD Patch: http://ejabberd.jabber.ru/ejabberd_ad
>