Authentication providers

Prosody supports authentication provider plugins. These can either use Prosody's built-in storage drivers (e.g. to use a custom format for account data), or they can integrate with external storage and authentication APIs.

The default provider uses Prosody’s configured storage, and is adequate for most deployments. To learn how to create accounts for your users, see our guide on creating user accounts.

Selecting a provider

A provider can be selected with the "authentication" option. This can be set globally and/or per-host.

   authentication = "internal_hashed" -- Default

Providers

Name Description
internal_plain Plaintext passwords stored using built-in storage
internal_hashed Hashed passwords stored using built-in storage
cyrus Cyrus SASL integration (LDAP, PAM, …)
ldap Authenticate users against an LDAP directory using lua-ldap
anonymous SASL 'ANONYMOUS' mechanism, random username, requires no credentials

There are also a number of additional providers in our community module repository. These modules are developed by the Prosody team and community, and may be at different stages of development. Please read the documentation before installing and using these modules.