Recommended Jabber server

[coolfrood]

Hi,

I'm planning to implement an IM service for our corporate environment. We're not looking for too many features -- just something that works and works well for about 50 odd people. I looked over at jabber.org and there seem to be a lot of OSS jabber servers available. I guess the only important feature for us is NIS-based authentication because we don't want to go through the trouble of creating new accounts and expecting people to remember new passwords. Does anyone have any experience with this, and if so, what is your recommendation?

[Tsuroerusu]

Hi,

I'm planning to implement an IM service for our corporate environment. We're not looking for too many features -- just something that works and works well for about 50 odd people.

How about plain old jabberd 2.x?

I looked over at jabber.org and there seem to be a lot of OSS jabber servers available. I guess the only important feature for us is NIS-based authentication because we don't want to go through the trouble of creating new accounts and expecting people to remember new passwords.

Can Jabber even do that? I am not sure.

[coolfrood]

Hi,

I'm planning to implement an IM service for our corporate environment. We're not looking for too many features -- just something that works and works well for about 50 odd people.

How about plain old jabberd 2.x?

I'll give it a shot.

I looked over at jabber.org and there seem to be a lot of OSS jabber servers available. I guess the only important feature for us is NIS-based authentication because we don't want to go through the trouble of creating new accounts and expecting people to remember new passwords.

Can Jabber even do that? I am not sure.

Well, it's not something that would be a part of the protocol. I looked briefly into ejabberd and I found that there are some patches available that let you use PAM authentication. I have no experience with that kind of stuff, so it might be a b**** to set up. Let's see how it goes.

[coolfrood]

After trying out ejabberd, which I couldn't get configured, I finally decided to go with jabberd (actually jabbberd2 which comes with Edgy). Configuring it wasn't too difficult. I just had to spend a little time trying to figure out how to use PAM authentication so that people can still use their NIS logins. The documentation is excellent.

[Tsuroerusu]

Configuring it wasn't too difficult. I just had to spend a little time trying to figure out how to use PAM authentication so that people can still use their NIS logins. The documentation is excellent.

Cool man, maybe if you have the time, you could write a short little HOWTO on doing just that, so the rest of us can do a deployment like you are doing.