Re: Jabber broken in 1.0.1 & Fire CVS?
Evan Jones <[email protected]>
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On Jun 9, 2004, at 18:53, Evan Jones wrote: > I'm trying to log in to a private Jabber server that has been set up > here recently, and it doesn't seem to let me (Unauthorized errors). > However, using Nitro works just fine. I believe the Jabber server is > using Twisted, and the connection is over SSL. Is this a known issue? Ah ha! I figured it out: the problem is not specifically a problem with Fire. It is actually a problem with the server's configuration. The server is using PAM to authenticate with user's Unix passwords. However, it is advertizing that it supports Digest Authentication. Unfortunately, digest authentication requires access to the plain text passwords on both the server and the client. This is not possible on the server side, since the passwords are safely stored in /etc/shadow in a hashed form. So the server is broken: it shouldn't be advertising auth. However, to successfully log in, I had to comment out the code that enabled digest authentication. So, my question is, would there be any interest in a patch that will retry the connection without digest, in case digest authentication fails? Evan Jones -- Evan Jones: http://evanjones.ca/ "Computers are useless. They can only give answers" - Pablo Picasso ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org _______________________________________________ Fire-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fire-talk Have a question? Please read the Fire Frequently Asked Questions: http://fire.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml