Ho do you log in securely?

Spark Spark Support
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Hey allm

I have wildfire set up on my non-profit org for chatting. I am trying to make things as secure as I can so I am wondering how I can set up logging in through like SSL or SSH. Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks

2

Hi,

Spark does not support SSL (port 5223) but plain and TLS (Transport Layer Security) connections (both port 5222). I did never see an option to force Spark to use TLS.

If you are using Wildfire you can configure it to require TLS on page http://server:9090/ssl-settings.jsp (edited: fixed 0090)

LG

3

Hey and thanks for a quick reply. Now my question is does tsl prevent the username/password and prevent chat logs from being sniffed by a network sniffer? I saw the option to only allow secure connections in the admin console but if I enable this and everybody is using spark, will it automatically switch to a secure connection?

Please let me know.

Thanks

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Hi,

the option will make sure that all clients use a secure connection.

You can still use a sniffer and collect the packets. You can decode them using the private key of the SSL certificate so you must not use Wildfire’'s default certificates but your own ones.

LG

5

Thanks for all your help.

6

Hi,

Anyone have access to this site http://server:0090/ssl-settings.jsp? I got page cannot be displayed. Has this been changed?

Please advise…

Cheers,

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it should read 9090, and server should be your xmpp.domain name - not sure it this is your problem?