xmpp protocol login/password

[Daniel Atallah]

On 9/26/07, Steve Roemen <stever at carlislefsp.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to use ntlm authentication for xmpp protocol?  I want to
> enable employees to have an IM system using jabber by connecting them to
> a local jabber server which authenticates them against ldap.
>
> Currently it works, but with our password changing policy they
> forget/don't know how/don't care to change their IM password, so it goes
> mostly unused.

This isn't possible currently, I've made some progress to get it
working, but haven't really really been able to test it at all yet.
This also requires that your xmpp server can do kerberos
authentication, not just authentication against active directory via
the ldap api.

I've been using the following ticket to track this:
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/2766

-D