Programming Jabber

Configuration and Module Load Directives

The c2s component contains a configuration directive related to the authorization process:

<service id="c2s">
  <load>
    <pthsock_client>./pthsock/pthsock_client.so</pthsock_client>
  </load>
  <pthcsock xmlns='jabber:config:pth-csock'>
    <alias to='yak'/>
    <authtime/>
    ...
  </pthcsock>
</service>

This <authtime/> tag is used to set the time limit, in seconds, within which authentication should be completed, starting to measure at the time the connection was made. See Section 4.6.3 for more details.

There is also an undocumented tag, <auth/>, which can be specified in the JSM instance configuration (for example, after the <register/> section) and with which you can specify an external component that is to handle authentication in place of the standard JSM modules (mod_auth_*). The JSM module load directives specify the modules that handle authentication:

<load main="jsm">
  <jsm>./jsm/jsm.so</jsm>
  <mod_echo>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_echo>
  <mod_roster>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_roster>
  <mod_time>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_time>
  <mod_vcard>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_vcard>
  <mod_last>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_last>
  <mod_version>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_version>
  <mod_announce>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_announce>
  <mod_agents>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_agents>
  <mod_browse>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_browse>
  <mod_admin>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_admin>
  <mod_filter>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_filter>
  <mod_offline>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_offline>
  <mod_presence>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_presence>
  <mod_auth_plain>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_auth_plain> <mod_auth_digest>./jsm/jsm.so</mod_auth_digest> ...