User Management

In the following commands users are identified by a Jabber ID, jid, of the usual form: user@domain.

adduser jid

Adds a user with Jabber ID, jid, to the server. You will be prompted to enter the user's password.

passwd jid

Changes the password of an existing user with Jabber ID, jid. You will be prompted to enter the user's new password.

deluser jid

Deletes an existing user with Jabber ID, jid, from the server.

Daemon Management

Although prosodyctl has commands to manage the prosody daemon it is recommended that you utilize your distributions daemon management features if you attained Prosody through a package.

To perform daemon control commands prosodyctl needs a pidfile value specified in /etc/prosody/prosody.cfg.lua. Failure to do so will cause prosodyctl to complain.

start

Starts the prosody server daemon. If run as root prosodyctl will attempt to change to a user named "prosody" before executing. This operation will block for up to five seconds to wait for the server to execute.

stop

Stops the prosody server daemon. This operation will block for up to five seconds to wait for the server to stop executing.

restart

Restarts the prosody server daemon. Equivalent to running prosodyctl stop followed by prosodyctl start.

reload

Signals the prosody server daemon to reload configuration and reopen log files.

status

Prints the current execution status of the prosody server daemon.

Certificates

prosodyctl can create self-signed certificates, certificate requests and private keys for use with Prosody. Commands are of the form prosodyctl cert subcommand. Commands take a list of hosts to be included in the certificate.

request hosts

Create a certificate request (CSR) file for submission to a certificate authority. Multiple hosts can be given, sub-domains are automatically included.

generate hosts

Generate a self-signed certificate.

key host [size]

Generate a private key of 'size' bits (defaults to 2048). Invoked automatically by 'request' and 'generate' if needed.

config hosts

Produce a config file for the list of hosts. Invoked automatically by 'request' and 'generate' if needed.

import hosts paths

Copy certificates for hosts into the certificate path and reload prosody.

Debugging

prosodyctl can also show some information about the environment, dependencies and such to aid in debugging.

about

Shows environment, various paths used by Prosody and installed dependencies.

check [what]

Performs various sanity checks on the configuration, DNS setup and configured TLS certificates. what can be one of config, dns and certs to run only that check.

Ejabberd Compatibility

ejabberd is another XMPP server which provides a comparable control tool, ejabberdctl, to control its server's operations. prosodyctl implements some commands which are compatible with ejabberdctl. For details of how these commands work you should see ejabberdctl(8).

register user server password
unregister user server