web based chat system

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 08:06 -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> I'm looking for a decent web based chat system. Possibly one connected with a 
> forum of any kind. Nothing real specific, if possible I would like it to be 
> configurable to allow logins based on system user accounts, rather than 
> setting up accounts just for the chat program. 
> As web based email is already in use, I would like to keep the username and 
> passords the same for everyone.
> This is not critical or a development system, so security isn't that big of a 
> deal. Only known people are allowed on the system, not just anyone off the 
> net.
> 
> Any recommendations?
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I am using ejabberd as jabber server - for a corporate type chat, this
offers an 'automatic' user list of all user accounts from LDAP and of
course, I am using LDAP for authentication too.

I also set up jwchat so any client can use a
mozilla/firefox/netscape/seamonkey web client without any configuration
necessary. This makes it so easy that I didn't have to educate a soul on
how to use it.

Craig