On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 01:51:33PM +0200, Tomasz Sterna wrote:
> From: "John Schmitt" <[email protected]>
>>> Where did you get the idea of hashes in config files?
>> I got them from looking at the default configuration files in my  
>> distribution, Fedora 11.
>
> Oh. Fedora.
> Now I get it...

Do you have something to say on this subject or Fedora?

>>> Have you read http://jabberd2.xiaoka.com/wiki/InstallGuide ?
>> Yes.  I see mention of changing the password but no mention of how to  
>> generate the long string used in the default configuration.
>
> Please check how these files looked before Fedora changes:
> http://codex.xiaoka.com/svn/jabberd2/trunk/etc/
>
> ex. http://codex.xiaoka.com/svn/jabberd2/trunk/etc/c2s.xml.dist.in
>    <!-- Username/password to authenticate as -->
>    <user>jabberd</user>          <!-- default: jabberd -->
>    <pass>secret</pass>           <!-- default: secret -->
>
>
> I hope it's clear now what you should do. :-)

Yes thank you.  Reinhard Max's response was the most helpful since he actually 
explained how the password was generated and corrected some of my false 
assumptions.  I wish it had occurred to me to examine the RPM spec file.  Thank 
you, Reinhard.

John

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