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Practical XMPP

By : Steven Watkin, David Koelle
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Practical XMPP

By: Steven Watkin, David Koelle

Overview of this book

XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is a messaging protocol that enables communication between two or more devices via the Internet. With this book, developers will learn about the fundamentals of XMPP, be able to work with the core functionality both server-side and in the browser, as well as starting to explore several of the protocol extensions. You will not only have a solid grasp of XMPP and how it works, but will also be able to use the protocol to build real-world applications that utilize the power of XMPP. By the end of this book, you will know more about networking applications in general, and have a good understanding of how to extend XMPP, as well as using it in sample applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Practical XMPP
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
An Introduction to XMPP and Installing Our First Server

User Registration


Earlier in this book, we talked about using the prosodyctl command to add users. For example, from the command line, you could enter the following to add a new user (you'll be prompted to enter and retype the password):

$ sudo prosodyctl adduser foo@localhost

Prosody also provides commands to set the password for a user, or to delete a user (you'll be prompted to enter and retype the password):

$ sudo prosodyctl passwd foo@localhost

The following command quietly deletes the user:

$ sudo prosodyctl deluser foo@localhost

Out of the box, Prosody does not provide a command to list the current users for a given host. If you have sufficient permissions, you can list the files in /var/lib/prosody/{host}/accounts, where you will see a .dat file for each account. But this isn't the right way to do this. Remember prosody-modules? It turns out that there is a module for listing users! It's called mod_listusers, and if you've followed the steps in the server modules section, you already...