[ILUG] LAN Instant messaging

[Alvaro Gilabert]

You can take a look at XMPP and see if any server implementation matches
your requirements and if any client accepts SSO.


On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:11 PM, imduffy <imduffy15 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm  looking for recommendations on LAN instant messaging system(Hopefully
> both for windows and linux.)
>
> At the moment I have a mixed environment of windows and linux(ubuntu)
> clients all of which auth against an active directory/ldap server.
>
> I want the user to be able to communicate with other users over the instant
> messaging client. However I want the user to be automatically signed into
> the IM client on login to their windows/gnome session.
>
> I was looking at using OpenFire and Spark IM with PKI based auth. The
> private keys would be automatically generated for each user when deploying
> the system. I would hope to store them in My
> documents/the-users-home-folder
> as a hidden file(with strict permissions of course). I would then launch
> Spark IM with a batch-script/gnome-session-startup-script. However, from
> what I've read Spark IM doesn't have much documentation for PKI and its
> very
> buggy.
>
> What would you guys recommend?
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