#Ejabberd ldap manual#

If you don't need/have groups, just put in say the companies name. So put in the chat group of the user in the user's 'Pager' section in their zimbra config, as that is unlikely to be actually used. Is there something special, that I have to think of When I try to connect, eJabberD tells. IT, Accounting, etc, with some clients like Pidgin allowing you to collapse groups you are not interested in. Hey Guys, I cant seem to get the connection to my LDAP working. The shared roster can be divided neatly into groups, eg.

#Ejabberd ldap manual#

However, I came up with something a bit hacky but can work fairly well at the expense of some manual (but GUI) work when adding a zimbra user. In addition, neither I, nor people online it seems, could find a way to have a distribution list where you can have the chat users. ham, spam, nagios) that would not look good on everyones buddy list. Unfortanately, there's no easy way to do it because you can simple add people who'se objectClass=zimbraAccount, because there'd be plenty of system users (eg. You may also want to use the shared roster feature, which allows you to pre-populate the user's buddy list with users taken from LDAP. If it doesn't work, check out the ejabberd logs (/opt/ejabberd/logs/) or see the ldap search commands on zimbra via tcpdump. Stop and start ejabberd, and try out the authentication. Ldap_rootdn: 'uid=ejabberd,ou=people,dc=rizvir,dc=com' ejabberd is also written in an unfamiliar language, but has an installer that consolidates everything into /opt, making it unobtrusive, and making it not depend on anything outside the norm. Prosody is the first thing that people suggest when it comes to lightweight yet good XMPP servers, but it's written in an obscure language, Lua, and as of writing (April 2015) does not support EL7 without compiling dozens of Lua dependencies from scratch. jabberd2 is in the EPEL repo, but does not support majority of the XMPP extensions. Openfire is good, but is java based and takes up a lot of RAM. 6 Edit Configuration file to enable LDAP authentication and Group validation. There are loads of XMPP servers available however if you're installing it on a server that has other things running on it like Zimbra, you'd want something light. 5 Edit Configuration file to use TLS for communication between the Server and your Jabber clients. Here is the account set up in my chat client with the JID udayubuntu, where uday is my LDAP user and ubuntu is the Ejabberd host: Once all things are set up, you should be able to connect to the Ejabberd server using your LDAP user account. This walks through setting up ejabberd, a lightweight XMPP/chat server, on RHEL/CentOS 6 or 7, along with details on integrating it with Zimbra's authentication. Now you can log in to Ejabberd with your LDAP username.