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Linux Networking Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Networking Cookbook Over 40 recipes to help you set up and configure Linux networks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785287916
Length 152 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gregory Boyce Gregory Boyce
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Agnello Dsouza Agnello Dsouza
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Configuring a Router 2. Configuring DNS FREE CHAPTER 3. Configuring IPv6 4. Remote Access 5. Web Servers 6. Directory Services 7. Setting up File Storage 8. Setting up E-mail 9. Configuring XMPP 10. Monitoring Your Network 11. Mapping Your Network 12. Watching Your Network Index

Installing ejabberd


Currently there are a number of Open Source XMPP/Jabber server projects available with their own individual strengths and weaknesses. For this chapter, we're going to look at ejabberd, which is an extremely powerful and flexible option that has great online documentation. The code for ejabberd is written in Erlang, which is a language created for writing distributed, fault tolerant code. While we will not be taking advantage of the native clustering of ejabberd, it does exist for future expansion.

How to do it...

  1. Install ejabberd through the following command:

    sudo apt-get install ejabberd
    
  2. Restrict access to the authentication script:

    sudo chown root:ejabberd /usr/lib/ejabberd/priv/bin/epam
    sudo chmod 4750 /usr/lib/ejabberd/priv/bin/epam
    
  3. Set up the PAM configuration:

    cat <<< '#%PAM-1.0
    auth        sufficient  pam_unix.so likeauth nullok nodelay
    account     sufficient  pam_unix.so' > /etc/pam.d/ejabberd
    
  4. Set up /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg:

    {loglevel, 3}.
    
    {hosts...
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