There's a specific kind of SSL certificate to be set up in this case, you
just can't use the same certificate used by a web server for example. Our
CA gives us the possibility to issue a jabber-specific-certificate without
any burden. The main blockers I currently see are:

1. SSL, is it really broken? the Openfire team released 3.8.1 on the 3rd of
March 2013, is that version still broken or supposed to be in regard of SSL?
2. should we integrate it with LDAP as we do now? this is indeed nice but
it takes in some security exposures, also there is no easy way for
Foundation members without a Git account to request their password reset on
their own (all the resets should be done by hand by me)
3. Foundation members need to be added on LDAP (still), thus there is no
easy way for the server to authenticate an user against a specific LDAP
entry, so ideally even someone not being a Foundation member (but with a
git account and an LDAP password for the user) could connect to
jabber.gnome.org.

This takes in another problem, is the service supposed for Foundation
members or for the "big public"? (where "big public" means all the GNOME
contributors having a Git account)




2013/3/14 Olav Vitters <o...@vitters.nl>

> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:26:33AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > to maintain the OpenFire Jabber server. First, as Olav mentioned,
> > there's no SSL support for a service where you would expect privacy.
>
> There is SSL. Just that:
> 1) they broke it in a newer version and never fixed it in any
> reasonable timeframe (3 months)
> 2) getting the certificate installed was a complete mess. Had to convert
> the standard certificate in some terrible format and took a lot of
> effort to figure out.
>
> Current server does SSL IIRC. Though maybe by now it expired again.
>
>
> What I had to go through for SSL:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592836#c8
>
> Couldn't quickly see the bug about openfire messing up their SSL
> support. 'Fix' was easy though, downgrading.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Olav
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Cheers,

Andrea

Debian Developer,
Fedora / EPEL packager,
GNOME Sysadmin,
GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman

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