Account creation on prosody
 

I'm trying to get the prosody server for Jabber/XMPP clients to work. I have it configured to listen ONLY to 127.0.0.1. Users will connect by forwarding a port through an ssh login to the server that runs prosody. The problem I'm running into is that no one can login. The ssh part works fine, but logging in to prosody within the machine is failing. At least one user is using pidgin and reports it failing. I tried irssi and it just drops connection without any message.

Perhaps these clients are not even compatible? I've also been trying to find other clients to try, but I need one in text mode and those seem hard to find. One that was originally designed for XMPP rather than adding it on later might be preferred.

Is there a way to create accounts on prosody from just a shell login (even with sudo/root)? I'd rather not have users just creating accounts there on the fly (which it seems to have the ability to do according to documentation).

There's no technical reason you can't run XMPP over an SSH tunnel. What is the error you get when you try?

These clients are definitely compatible with Prosody. When I need a console XMPP client I use mcabber (XMPP from the ground up).

Yes, see the Creating Accounts page in the Prosody documentation.

Hope this helps,
Matthew