SYNOPSIS
prosodyctl command [--help]
DESCRIPTION
prosodyctl is the control tool for the Prosody XMPP server. It may be used to control the server daemon and manage users.prosodyctl needs to be executed with sufficient privileges to perform its commands. This typically means executing prosodyctl as the root user. If a user named "prosody" is found then prosodyctl will change to that user before executing its commands.
COMMANDS
User Management
In the following commands users are identified by a Jabber ID, jid, of the usual form: user@domain.
- adduser jid
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Adds a user with Jabber ID, jid, to the server. You will be
prompted to enter the user's password.
- passwd jid
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Changes the password of an existing user with Jabber ID, jid. You will be
prompted to enter the user's new password.
- deluser jid
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Deletes an existing user with Jabber ID, jid, from the server.
Daemon Management
Although prosodyctl has commands to manage the prosody daemon it is recommended that you utilize your distributions daemon management features if you attained Prosody through a package.To perform daemon control commands prosodyctl needs a pidfile value specified in /etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua. Failure to do so will cause prosodyctl to complain.
- start
-
Starts the prosody server daemon. If run as root prosodyctl will
attempt to change to a user named "prosody" before executing. This operation
will block for up to five seconds to wait for the server to execute.
- stop
-
Stops the prosody server daemon. This operation will block for up to five
seconds to wait for the server to stop executing.
- restart
-
Restarts the prosody server daemon. Equivalent to running prosodyctl
stop followed by prosodyctl start.
- status
-
Prints the current execution status of the prosody server daemon.
Ejabberd Compatibility
ejabberd is another XMPP server which provides a comparable control tool, ejabberdctl, to control its server's operations. prosodyctl implements some commands which are compatible with ejabberdctl. For details of how these commands work you should see ejabberdctl(8).
- register user server password
- unregister user server
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OPTIONS
- --help
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Display help text for the specified command.
FILES
- /etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua
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The main prosody configuration file. prosodyctl reads this to
determine the process ID file of the prosody server daemon and to
determine if a host has been configured.