XMPP Service Operators - 2020-03-06

I didn't think this was possible but apparently it's happening. How can I prevent users who are not hosted on my own servers from creating new persistent mucs on my server?

With Prosody

tom: https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_muc

Room creation restrictions

restrict_room_creation = local

There's not finer grained control like restrict_room_persistent = local is there?

I didnt understand

"local" Restricts room creation to users on the service’s parent domain. E.g. user@example.com can create rooms on rooms.example.com.

Suppose not

Thats what documentation says

tom: how do you know they are doing this?

Oh

It's fine Licaon_Kter i found a solution

But since your curious I just ran disco one day on my own server and saw brand new mucs there created not by anyone I know

And went into the server it said some random person from 404.city created it

Don't know why a 404.city user would want to create a muc on my server instead of 404's but I just preferred if users asked me if I was ok hosting them before just creating a whole bunch of new mucs themselves

If you don't restrict it they think it'll be fine. I also created mucs on other servers than mine for reasons.

> Martin has written: > If you don't restrict it they think it'll be fine. I don't care on my server as long as you don't overload the server

» [23:02:34] <Martin> If you don't restrict it they think it'll be fine. I also created mucs on other servers than mine for reasons. Oh, I don't mind it really. The problem comes when they mark the mucs persistent and nobody is actually in the chat. I have to play janitor to clean those out

Yeah, we've discussed some kind of automatic cleanup for unused rooms

> tom has written: > There's not finer grained control like restrict_room_persistent = local is there? You can write it if the xmppd you use is open source

tom: Metronome does have spring cleaning for inactive persistent rooms

Which defaults to 30 days if expire_inactive_rooms is set to true in the config

Maranda: what is Metronome?

tom: a XMPP server of course https://github.com/maranda/metronome

Have you guys seen this yet? https://systemd.vtsoft.dev/

Clearly a winner of the Most Obnoxious Website Award

My eyes…

Get this, the thing is entirely standard HTML and CSS

With some work-around quirks for the webkit rendering engine

No javascript whatsoever