welcome: please sign in

Upload page content

You can upload content for the page named below. If you change the page name, you can also upload content for another page. If the page name is empty, we derive the page name from the file name.

File to load page content from
Page name
Comment
Last name of the current Debian Project Leader

Revision 14 as of 2009-09-02 15:53:57

Edit

MemberManual / UsingJabber

1. Description

HCoop is running a closed registration Jabber server.

We are using ejabberd 2.x with the PAM authentication method. This means that your Kerberos password is now your Jabber password, and that every HCoop member has an account.

2. Client Setup

$USER refers to your HCoop username.

Please add info for any clients you use.

2.1. Logging in / Adding a New Account

2.1.1. Adium

http://www.adiumx.com/

  1. Open the Preferences dialog (Adium->Preferences or Command-comma)

  2. Go to the "Accounts" section
  3. Select "Jabber" from the "+" menu in the lower-left corner
  4. Enter "$USER@hcoop.net" in the "Jabber ID" field

  5. Enter your password in the "Password" field
  6. Click "OK"

2.1.2. Agile Messenger

http://www.agilemobile.com/index.html

  1. Add a new account of type "XMPP"
  2. Enter "$USER@hcoop.net" as the username

  3. Enter your password

Note that your resource will be "Work" and you cannot change this (as far as I can tell)

2.1.3. Gaim / Pidgin

http://www.pidgin.im/

  1. Open the Accounts dialog (Tools->Accounts or C-a)

  2. Add a new account
  3. Set the type to Jabber (in Gaim) or XMPP (in Pidgin)
  4. Screen Name = $USER, Server = hcoop.net

2.1.4. Kopete

http://kopete.kde.org/

  1. Open the Settings dialog (Seetings->Configure)

  2. On the "Accounts" page click the "Add account" button
  3. In the wizard choose "Jabber" from the list then click "Next"
  4. Now enter your jabber id in this form: $USER@hcoop.net and your password

  5. It will ask you to confirm the validity of the SSL certificate, click continue and you're done.

2.2. Changing Your Password

Since we use PAM now to change your password you must change your system wide password using the normal account password changing process.