#EJABBERD RESET PASSWORD INSTALL#
#EJABBERD RESET PASSWORD PASSWORD#

If you are not comfortable with that feel free to create a new certificate following the steps from the original article. You'll be asked to type your JID and password, so use the information you entered on the previous stepĪs a note, I didn't create my own SSL certificate because for isolated intranet the default one is quite enough. To verify that everything is ok, in your browser go to the admin page of the server () and check the statistics. That's it! You have now working XMPP server with one registered user.

#EJABBERD RESET PASSWORD PASSWORD#

Run the following command replacing password placeholders with the actual password and providing user name and domain name from ejabberd.cfg file Now it's time to register the admin user we configured on the previous step. When you are done with editing, start the server In addition you can provide other hostnames you like, but the short one is mandatory. You can get it by running hostname -s command (in my case it was 'ubuntu'). After digging into some Erlang exceptions I got while registering admin account (see next step) I came to conclusion that in the list of hostnames there must be a short hostname of the box. In theory you can provide there just localhost but in practice it didn't work for me. By default it's localhost and it's functional but it's better to change it to something meaningful. įor admin you need to specify the user name and domain name that you want to use as a Jabber ID. Open /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg file for edit and make the following change

Next step is to configure administrator and hosts. To configure the server you need to stop it When installation is finished ejabberd server is started. This is the user the server will be running on. You can use Synaptic Package Manager or just command line:ĭuring the installation a new user, ejabberd, will be created in the system.

#EJABBERD RESET PASSWORD INSTALL#

The first step is to install the required package. My experience was little bit different from the author's one, so I want to show here exact steps I did to make it work, maybe it will be helpful for you too. Thanks to this nice document, the process was pretty straightforward. Recently I've installed ejabberd server on Ubuntu box.

Ejabberd reset password