Options: Acl

The acl section is used to define access classes to which the connecting users are assigned. These classes are used in access rules.

• Syntax: each access class is a key-value pair, where:
  • Key is the name of the access class,
  • Value is a TOML array of patterns - TOML tables, whose format is described below.
• Default: no default - each access class needs to be specified explicitly.
• Example: the local access class is used for the regular users connecting to the C2S listener. The pattern {} matches all users from the current server, because it is equivalent to {match = "current_domain"} (see below).

  local = [{}]

When there are multiple patterns listed, the resulting pattern will be the union of all of them.

Patterns

Each pattern consists of one or more conditions, specified with the options listed below. All defined conditions need to be satisfied for the pattern to be matched successfully.

acl.*.match

• Syntax: string, one of: "all", "current_domain", "any_hosted_domain", "none"
• Default: "current_domain"
• Example: match = "all"

By default only users from the current domain (the one of the server) are matched. Setting it to "any_hosted_domain" results in matching users from all domains hosted by this server. You can also set this option to "all", extending the pattern to users from external domains. This option makes a difference for some access rules, e.g. MAM, MUC and registration ones. Setting the option to "none" makes the pattern never match.

  everyone = [
    {match = "all"}
  ]

acl.*.user

• Syntax: string
• Example: user = "admin"

Matches all JIDs with the specified user name. The following class includes alice@localhost, but not bob@localhost:

  admin = [
    {user = "alice"},
    {user = "charlie"}
  ]

acl.*.server

• Syntax: string
• Example: server = "localhost"

Matches all JIDs with the specified domain name. The following class includes alice@localhost, but not alice@xmpp.org:

  localhost_users = [
    {server = "localhost"}
  ]

This option can be combined with user - only alice@localhost belongs to the following class:

  admin = [
    {user = "alice", server = "localhost"}
  ]

acl.*.resource

• Syntax: string
• Example: resource = "mobile"

Matches all JIDs with the specified resource name. The following class includes alice@localhost/mobile, but not alice@localhost/home:

  mobile_users = [
    {resource = "mobile"}
  ]

This option can be combined with user and server - only alice@localhost/mobile belongs to the following class:

  admin = [
    {user = "alice", server = "localhost", resource = "mobile"}
  ]

acl.*.user_regexp

• Syntax: string, regular expression
• Example: user_regexp = "^user.*"

Matches all JIDs with the user name matching the regular expression. The following class includes alice@localhost and albert@jabber.org, but not bob@localhost:

  ae = [
    {user_regexp = "^a.*e"}
  ]

This option can be combined with server - here albert@jabber.org is excluded:

  localhost_ae = [
    {user_regexp = "^a.*e", server = "localhost"}
  ]

acl.*.server_regexp

• Syntax: string, regular expression
• Example: server = "localhost"

Matches all JIDs with the domain name matching the regular expression. The following class includes alice@host1, but not alice@xmpp.org:

  host_users = [
    {server_regexp = "host"}
  ]

This option can be combined with user_regexp, e.g. we can require the user name to contain 'a' and the domain name to start with 'a':

  a = [
    {user_regexp = "a", server_regexp = "^a"}
  ]

acl.*.resource_regexp

• Syntax: string, regular expression
• Example: resource_regexp = "^res"

Matches all JIDs with the resource name matching the regular expression. This class includes bob@xmpp.org/res123, but not bob@xmpp.org/home:

  digital_resources = [
    {resource_regexp = '^res\d+$'}
  ]

Note the use of a literal string (single quotes) to prevent \d from being escaped.

acl.*.user_glob

• Syntax: string, glob pattern
• Example: user_glob = "^user.*"

Matches all JIDs with the user name matching the pattern: The following class includes alice@localhost and albert@jabber.org, but not bob@localhost:

  ae_users = [
    {user_glob = "a*e*"}
  ]

This option can be combined with server - here albert@jabber.org is excluded:

  localhost_ae_users = [
    {user_glob = "a*e*", server = "localhost"}
  ]

acl.*.server_glob

• Syntax: string, glob pattern
• Example: server = "localhost"

Matches all JIDs with the domain name matching the pattern. The following class includes alice@host1, but not alice@xmpp.org:

  localhost_users = [
    {server_glob = "host*"}
  ]

This option can be combined with user_glob, e.g. we can require the user name to contain 'a' and the domain name to start with 'a':

  a = [
    {user_glob = "*a*", server_glob = "a*"}
  ]

acl.*.resource_glob

• Syntax: string, glob pattern
• Example: resource_glob = "^res"

Matches all JIDs with the resource name matching the pattern. This class includes bob@xmpp.org/res123, but not bob@xmpp.org/home:

  limited_resources = [
    {resource_glob = "res???"}
  ]