Enable user registration - eJabberd

Question

I am a complete n00b to configuring Jabber/XMPP servers and I am hoping to get some help getting set up. I have done all of this and installed pidgin. I seem to be able set up my "admin-user" in pidgin no problem but when I try to register a new user I get a 403 Fobidden message back from pidgin.

Do I need to change the ejabberd.cfg file to allow users to register? If so how do I go about it? If not what do I need to get basic chat and fileshare going?

Solution

You have two options regarding user registration. You can either manually create user accounts on the server, or you can enable in-band registration, which allows anyone who can connect to the server to register an account.

If you want to create accounts manually, run this on the server for each user:

sudo ejabberdctl register <username> <domain> <password>

If you want to enable in-band registration, find the following line in /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg and change the deny to allow so that it looks like this.

{access, register, [{allow, all}]}.

Comments

[travega]

Awesome that worked thanks. Any info on how I can get registered uses to be able to chat?!!

[mgorven]

The users need to add each other to their rosters, and should then be able to send messages.