Mastodon

How to easily integrate an XMPP server with Mastodon.

Database integration

The easiest way to link an Ejabberd server to a Mastodon instance on the same server is to use an external auth script that directly interacts with the Mastodon Postgresql database. This method only works securely on the local network, but has been well tested on a medium sized Mastodon instance.

Mastodon bot for Ejabberd

Another easy to use option is to run a bot on your Mastodon instance that can be interacted with to register accounts via the Ejabberd API. You can find the necessary bot software here. This bot also has some other nice functionality to get details from Ejabberd, so it might be worth running even if another account integration method is used.

Via LDAP

If you are setting up a new Mastodon instance, you might also consider managing the user accounts via a separate LDAP database as explained in the official Mastodon documentation here. Please refer to our dedicated LDAP tutorial for the XMPP server part.

Prosody

Currently Experimental.

Integration of a Prosody server with Mastodon can be done through OAuth2. The new mod_auth_oauth_external module is needed for that (and it requires a recent nightly Prosody build).

First a new application needs to be registered from the Mastodon side. That can be done in Mastodon → Settings → Development → New application. Redirect URI doesn't matter. Prosody needs the read:accounts scope, noting else.

Then these lines need to be added to the Prosody configuration:

1authentication = "oauth_external"
2oauth_external_token_endpoint = "https://mastodon.example/oauth/token"
3oauth_external_validation_endpoint = "https://mastodon.example/api/v1/accounts/verify_credentials"
4oauth_external_username_field = "username"
5oauth_external_scope = "read:accounts"
6oauth_external_client_id = "Get client_id from https://mastodon.example/settings/applications"
7oauth_external_client_secret = "Get client_secret from https://mastodon.example/settings/applications"

Now users can login with this username: email\40example.com@xmpp.example.org, which is composed of the email address they are registered with on the Mastodon server (with the @ escaped as \40) and the domain of the XMPP server behind the second @. Hopefully this complex login name can be simplified in the future.