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mod_auth_cyrus: Add empty 'profile' table to SASL handler objects This is for compatibility with Prosody's built-in util.sasl objects. A SASL profile table usually includes methods supported by the backend, which can be used by SASL mechanism handlers to perform operations (such as testing the password). It also optionally contains a 'cb' field with channel binding method handlers. The Cyrus backend doesn't support channel binding, and doesn't have the same concept of auth backend methods (it handles all that internally, and Prosody has no insight or control over it). Thus, we create an empty profile which informs Prosody that the SASL handler does not support any of the auth or channel binding methods. Some features will not work, but they didn't work anyway. This just makes it explicit. This fixes a traceback in mod_sasl2_fast, which expected SASL handlers to always contain a 'profile' field.
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3 - 'Stage-Deprecated'
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4 summary: 'Implementation of XEP-0138'
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8 **NOTE:** XMPP compression has unresolved [security concerns](https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2014-October/029215.html),
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9 and this module has been removed from Prosody and renamed.
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12 While the bandwidth usage of XMPP isn't that much, compressing the data
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13 sent to/from your server can give significant benefits to those on slow
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14 connections, such as dial-up or mobile networks. Prosody supports
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16 server-to-server streams using the mod\_compression plugin.
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18 # Details
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20 mod\_compression implements [XEP-0138], and supports the zlib compression
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21 algorithm.
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23 ## Dependencies
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25 The XMPP protocol specifies that all clients and servers supporting
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27 Prosody uses. However you will need to install zlib support for Lua on
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28 your system. There are different ways of doing this depending on your
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29 system. If in doubt whether it is installed correctly, the command
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30 `lua -lzlib` in a console should open a Lua prompt with no errors.
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33 : `apt-get install lua-zlib`
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39 : <https://github.com/brimworks/lua-zlib>
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41 # Usage
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43 ``` lua
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44 modules_enabled = {
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45 -- Other modules
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46 "compression_unsafe"; -- Enable mod_compression_unsafe
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47 }
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48 ```
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50 ## Configuration
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52 The compression level can be set using the `compression_level` option
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53 which can be a number from 1 to 9. Higher compression levels will use
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54 more resources but less bandwidth.
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56 ## Example
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58 ``` lua
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59 modules_enabled = {
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60 -- Other modules
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61 "compression_unsafe"; -- Enable mod_compression_unsafe
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64 compression_level = 5
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65 ```