JWT installation and moderator control in Jitsi 🤖

After you install Jitsi completely, you'll follow the steps below to change the form of anonymous to token authentication through the URL and adding the plugin for moderator control.

Installation

To perform the installation and configuration of JWT just run the script, remember to write the keys ID and SECRET, if the installation process fails, you will not have to reinstall everything 😄 . Remember to run the script as a super user.

Click here for download the script 💻 OBS: Your computer will restart after finish installation

Testing

After installation, try to enter any room, if you are asked for the login and password, everything went well. Now to enter the room you will need to generate a token and include in the URL as a parameter.

• Generating token: OBS: In this example i use JWT website (https://jwt.io/).

Side Notes

Helpers

To manage more efficiently, I left here two scripts to enable and disable authentication via JWT:

• disable JWT
• enable JWT

Installation Issues

If there is a problem with the installation, you can stop using JWT authentication by changing the files:

• /etc/prosody/conf.d/[nomeservidor].cfg.lua:

  • First find the excerpt VirtualHost "[hostname]" and VirtualHost "guest.[hostname]" then find the key inside authentication and change the current value "token" to "anonymous":

    ...
    VirtualHost "[hostname]"
      authentication = "anonymous";
      ...
    ...

• /etc/jitsi/meet/[hostname].config.js:

  • find the object hosts then comment the key anonymousdomain:

    ... 
    hosts = {
      ...
      // insert two forward bars before the code for comment
      // anonymousdomain: 'gest.[hostname]',
    }
    ...

  • Then find the key (probably in the middle of the file) enableUserRolesBasedOnToken and comment to.

• Ind the end, you should restart the services:

  service nginx stop
  /etc/init.d/jicofo restart
  /etc/init.d/jitsi-videobridge2 restart
  /etc/init.d/prosody restart
  service nginx start

After any change in you custom Jitsi, restart it, so make a script for it. 😉

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