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Practical XMPP

You're reading from   Practical XMPP Unleash the power of XMPP in order to build exciting, realtime, federated applications based on open standards in a secure and highly scalable fashion

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785287985
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Steven Watkin Steven Watkin
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to XMPP and Installing Our First Server FREE CHAPTER 2. Diving into the Core XMPP Concepts 3. Building a One-on-One Chat Bot - The "Hello World" of XMPP 4. Talking XMPP in the Browser Using XMPP-FTW 5. Building a Multi-User Chat Application 6. Make Your Static Website Real-Time 7. Creating an XMPP Component 8. Building a Basic XMPP-Based Pong Game 9. Enhancing XMPPong with a Server Component and Custom Messages 10. Real-World Deployment and XMPP Extensions

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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...

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