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Some options that you may be interested in modifying:
\begin{description}
\titem{--prefix=/}
- Specify the path prefix where the files will be copied when running the make install command.
+ Specify the path prefix where the files will be copied when running
+ the \term{make install} command.
\titem{--enable-user[=USER]}
Allow this normal system user to execute the ejabberdctl script
(see section~\ref{ejabberdctl}),
- modify the configuration files and read log files.
- The account must exist in the machine. It doesn't need a HOME directory.
- If the option is not set, then only root can perform those actions.
+ read the configuration files,
+ read and write in the spool directory,
+ read and write in the log directory.
+ The account user and group must exist in the machine
+ before running \term{make install}.
+ This account doesn't need an explicit HOME directory, because
+ \term{/var/lib/ejabberd/} will be used by default.
\titem{--enable-pam}
Enable the PAM authentication method (see section \ref{pam}).