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Programming Jabber
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Programming Jabber

by DJ Adams
January 2002
Beginner
480 pages
13h 15m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Administration

While the Unix user acts as the overall administrator for the Jabber server (for starting and stopping jabberd, for example), it is possible to specify administration rights for certain Jabber users that are local to the server. “Local” means users that are defined as belonging to the host (or hosts) specified in the <host/> tag within the same JSM component instance definition. If the host tag is:

<host>server.com</host>

then the JID’s dj@server.com and admin@server.com are local, but admin@anotherserver.com is not.

The only difference between an administration JID and a “normal” JID is that the former is specified in tags in this section and the latter isn’t. When a JID is specified between either the <read/> or <write/> tags, then it can be used to perform “administrative” tasks.

The <admin/> section as delivered in the standard jabber.xml that comes with Version 1.4.1 (see Appendix A) is commented out. Make sure that you remove the comment lines to activate the section if you want to make use of the administrative features:

<admin>
  <read>support@yak</read>
  <write>admin@yak</write>
  <reply>
    <subject>Auto Reply</subject>
    <body>This is a special administrative address.</body>
  </reply>
</admin>

If you want to specify more than one JID with administrative rights, simply repeat the tags, like this:

<read>admin1@yak</read>
<read>admin2@yak</read>
<read>admin3@yak</read>

Placing a JID inside of a <write/> tag implies that that JID also has <read/> administration ...

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