XMPP Rejecting PLAIN, "No worthy mechs found" Red Hat 5.5

2010-09-08 Thread Alan De Smet
I'm using Pidgin as shipped with Red Hat 5.5. Pidgin identifies as "Pidgin 2.6.6-2.el5_4". When I try to log into our university's XMPP server, Pidgin fails to connect claiming, "503: Service Unavailable." Co-workers using identical installs on the same machine are able to log in without problem

Re: XMPP Rejecting PLAIN, "No worthy mechs found" Red Hat 5.5

2010-09-08 Thread Paul Aurich
On 2010-09-08 12:05, Alan De Smet wrote: > I'm using Pidgin as shipped with Red Hat 5.5. Pidgin identifies as > "Pidgin 2.6.6-2.el5_4". The Help->About information is usually going to be more helpful (it catches situations in which there's a locally-installed pidgin/libpurple), but I don't think

Re: XMPP Rejecting PLAIN, "No worthy mechs found" Red Hat 5.5

2010-09-09 Thread Alan De Smet
Thank you for all of the help! This proved the key clue: Paul Aurich wrote: > Are you sure you don't have an architecture mismatch between the pidgin > rpm and the cyrus-sasl-plain package you have installed? > > I'm by no means a RPM expert, but this does look like the sasl plugin is > missing