Les Mikesell wrote:
I thought one of the big deals in Centos was the ability to configure PAM to authenticate anywhere you want and all the apps use the same settings? Isn't that true, or aren't there any jabber/IRC servers that are bundled properly into the distribution?
I know of neither. yum list "*jab*" only shows some perl-Jabber-* packages, yum list "*irc*" gives back ircd-hybrid from the kbs-CentOS-testing repository. So yes, ircd and jabberd aren't really in CentOS.
And I have no idea if ircd-hybrid is being able to interface into an already existing user database, as it has its very own ways managing "users".
This sounds very much like a distro-centric question to me, even if the answer turns out to be that Centos doesn't provide that.
Done.
Cheers,
Ralph