Prevent users from adding external IM

2012-07-12 Thread Daniel Lopez
Greetings, I was wondering if there is a way to customize the
installation to prevent regular users from adding external IM services
to the Pidgin client such as AIM, gtalk, msn, yahoo, ect? We have an
internal XMPP IM server (OpenFire) linked to our AD with LDAP and would
like to limit the users to just that.

 

Thank you

 

Daniel Lopez

Lone Star Legal Aid

1415 Fannin Houston Tx 77002

713.652.0077 x1277

 

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Re: Prevent users from adding external IM

2012-07-12 Thread Daniel Atallah
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Lopez dlo...@lonestarlegal.org wrote:
 Greetings, I was wondering if there is a way to customize the installation
 to prevent regular users from adding external IM services to the Pidgin
 client such as AIM, gtalk, msn, yahoo, ect? We have an internal XMPP IM
 server (OpenFire) linked to our AD with LDAP and would like to limit the
 users to just that.

No, this isn't really possible.

I assume that this is on Windows, in which case, you can delete all
the protocol plugins apart from the XMPP plugin (libxmpp.dll) and it
will eliminate support for other protocols, but you're not going to be
able to prevent people using other XMPP accounts (like Google Talk).
There also will be nothing preventing people from putting back the
plugins (either in the global location or in the user-specific
location).

A more appropriate way to do block access to services that you don't
want people to access would be to use some sort of firewall to prevent
the network traffic.

-D

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