Bug 92673 – Support for pipe auth in jabberd ebuild

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Feigl 2005-05-15 00:58:35 UTC]

At the moment, the jabberd cannot be compiled with the pipe authentificator without changing the ebuild. There should be a local use flag to enable the pipe authentificator or it could be compiled in by default. 

The corresponding configure switch is --enable-pipe

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-15 02:49:44 UTC]

You could try 

ECONF_EXTRA="--enable-pipe" emerge jabberd

meanwhile.

[Comment 2 Christian Loitsch 2005-05-16 14:23:09 UTC]

the ECONF_EXTRA trick doesn't work for me.  Is there anything special I have to do?

I would need this option as well.

[Comment 3 Alexander Feigl 2005-05-17 03:04:21 UTC]

You could try to patch the ebuild - like I did. I could attach the ebuild to this bug - but I simply added --
enable-pipe to the configure flags which is somewhat trivial. The better way would probably be to 
introduce a local use flag. But this is probably to be decided by the ebuild maintainer.

As an information to the ebuild maintainer: the pipe authentificator allows to authentificate by an external 
executable though a pipe. This feature is needed by people who operate a Jabber server but already have 
an existing user base. So probably some/most people won't need it and it would make sense to create a 
use flag for this

[Comment 4 Christian Loitsch 2005-08-11 13:03:14 UTC]

Created attachment 65694 [details]
jabberd-2.0.9-r1.ebuild

Here is the 2.0.9 ebuild with a pipe use-flag.
The description of the flag could be:
Adds support to authenticate by an external 
executable though a pipe.

[Comment 5 johnny 2006-03-14 12:14:54 UTC]

i would like this feature too..  is this going to be a possibility?

[Comment 6 Gustavo Felisberto (RETIRED) 2006-03-15 02:31:18 UTC]

This bug should not be mine :)

[Comment 7 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2006-10-04 13:50:12 UTC]

Fixed in jabberd-2.0.11-r1.