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Is ejabberd secure?

by Rhyley Bryan

Is ejabberd secure?

Here is brief guide on setting up secure ejabberd TLS connections and keeping them private. ejabberd have number of options that control security: certfile: Full path to a file containing the default SSL certificate. ciphers: OpenSSL ciphers list in the same format accepted by ‘openssl ciphers’ command.

How do you take ejabberd?

Install Ejabberd XMPP Server on Ubuntu

  1. Step 1: Download the Ejabberd server from Ubuntu terminal.
  2. Step 2: Extract the Erlang tar file.
  3. Step 3: Adding Dependencies in the command.
  4. Step 4: Verification of the issues.
  5. Step 5: Begin the compilation and Install the Erlang.
  6. Step 6: Open the Ejabberd configuration file.

How do I start an ejabberd service?

If you want ejabberd to be started as daemon at boot time with that user, copy ejabberd. init from the bin directory to something like /etc/init….Or if you have a systemd distribution:

  1. copy ejabberd.
  2. run systemctl daemon-reload.
  3. run systemctl enable ejabberd.
  4. To start the server, you can run systemctl start ejabberd.

What should the configuration file name be in ejabberd?

The configuration file will be loaded the first time you start ejabberd. The configuration file name MUST have “.yml” or “.yaml” extension. This helps ejabberd to differentiate between the new and legacy file formats (see section Legacy Configuration File). The configuration file is written in YAML.

Where do I enter my ejabberd username and password?

After starting ejabberd, a welcome screen should open in your default browser. You can go to the web dashboard at http://localhost:5280/admin/ and fill the username field with the full account JID, for example admin@domain (or admin@localhost as above). Then fill the password field with that account’s password.

Which is the authentication method used in ejabberd?

In this authentication method, when ejabberd starts, it start a script, and calls it to perform authentication tasks. The server administrator can write the external authentication script in any language. The details on the interface between ejabberd and the script are described in the ejabberd Developers Guide.

Do you need to enable automated mode in ejabberd?

The automated mode is enabled by default. However, since ACME requires HTTP challenges (i.e. an ACME server will connect to ejabberd server on HTTP port 80 during certificate issuance), some configuration of ejabberd is still required.

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