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Openfire Administration

By : Mayank Sharma
Book Image

Openfire Administration

By: Mayank Sharma

Overview of this book

<p>Openfire is a free, open-source and full featured Jabber-based Instant Messaging server.<br /><br />This book is a guide to setting up Openfire, tweaking it, and customizing it to build a secure and feature-rich alternative to consumer IM networks. The features covered include details about setting up the server, adding and handling users and groups, updating, and extending the service with plug-ins, connecting with users on external IM networks, connecting with external voice over IP solutions and more, with user-friendly instructions and examples so that you can easily set up your IM network.<br /><br />The book deals with several features of Openfire to streamline communication within an enterprise and beyond. It shows how to configure Openfire to allow only secured connections. It then explains how Openfire complements other existing services running on your network. Managing and fostering IM as a real-time collaboration and communication tool is what this book is about.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Openfire Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Adding Users


This chapter revolves around the Users/Groups tab. Currently, when you head over to that tab, it will list the default admin user and any other you might have created from within the clients, before we disabled that feature in the last chapter.

Ok, so if you want to add a user, under Users/Groups, you'll notice a self-descriptive Create New User option. This takes you to a simple web form (refer to the following screenshot) where you need to enter:

  1. 1. Username of the new user,

  2. 2. His/her real Name,

  3. 3. Email address, and

  4. 4. Password

You can then either click on the Create User button that'll create the user and take you to the user's properties for further editing, or you can use the Create & Create Another button which adds the user to the database and clears the form for you to create another user.

Note

Note that two users on the network cannot have the same username. Openfire will ask you to change the username if an existing user with that username already exists.

Editing And...