separating password item in configuration files

[smoku]

Currently, configuration (on Debian anyway) is through /etc/jabberd2/*.xml. I would like the sensitive fields (passwords, don't know if anything else is sensitive) to be in separate files. This way the whole directory doesn't have to have restrictive permissions and the rest of configuration can be stored in a version control system.

Thanks for listening.

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There is XML syntax for doing this, e.g. see http://xml.silmaril.ie/authors/includes/

Haven't tried this with jabberd2 yet though.

[smoku]

Implementing this would be pretty useless. Jabberd processes does not run with root privileges, so restricting access to "sensitive fields" would yeld them unreadable for jabberd processes.