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labels:
- 'Stage-Alpha'
- 'Type-Auth'
summary: Joomla authentication module
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Introduction
============
This module allows you to authenticate against an Joomla database.
Configuration
=============
SQL connection paramaters are identical to those of [SQL
storage](https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_storage_sql) except for an
additional 'prefix' parameter that defaults to 'jos\_'.\_
authentication = "joomla"
sql = { -- See documentation for SQL storage
driver = "MySQL";
database = "joomla";
host = "localhost";
username = "prosody";
password = "secretpassword";
prefix = "jos_";
}
Compatibility
=============
Prosody 0.8+