jitsi-token-moderation-plugin with promotion of other participants during the conference

This version otf the token moerator plugin allows to promote participants during the meeting to moderators A lot of users asks to promote participants during a meeting. With the original plugin this was not possible but here we fixed this issue.

Lua plugin for jitsi which determines whether users are moderator or not based on token contents

Note im just sharing this because I needed it for a project and it thought it might help people out there, but im not looking to maintain it or make improvements or anything so I probably wont be help much with any problems you might have.

On the other hand, if you make any improvements to this and want to share feel free to make a pull request.

Caveats

There's probably plenty of possible improvement as this is my first look at lua/prosody, i've tested it a bit but haven't tried many edge cases and only tried with my configuration

I'm not sure of how well it will work in 1 on 1 chats since I think prosody uses a different protocol for this by default, you can disable this option in the jitsi meet javascript config file though (search for p2p).

This version otf the token moerator plugin allows to promote participants during the meeting to moderators

Installation

Standalone

• Put the lua file somewhere on your jitsi server
• Open /etc/prosody/conf.d/[YOUR DOMAIN].cfg.lua
• At the very top of the file in plugin_paths after "/usr/share/jitsi-meet/prosody-plugins/" add , "[DIRECTORY INTO WHICH YOU PUT THE MOD LUA]", like

plugin_paths = { "/usr/share/jitsi-meet/prosody-plugins/", "/usr/share/jitsi-meet/prosody-plugins-custom/" }

• Edit the conferance.[YOUR DOMAIN] component to add token_moderation
  • Change this line modules_enabled = { [EXISTING MODULES] } TO modules_enabled = { [EXISTING MODULES]; "token_moderation"; }, like

  Component "conference.meet.example.com" "muc"
    storage = "memory"
    modules_enabled = {
        "muc_meeting_id";
        "muc_domain_mapper";
        "token_verification";
        "token_moderation";
    }
    admins = { "[email protected]" }
    muc_room_locking = false
    muc_room_default_public_jids = true

• Depending on your setup, you need to restart the services:
  • Run sudo systemctl restart prosody && sudo systemctl restart jicofo && sudo systemctl restart jitsi-videobridge2 -- for ubuntu/debian systems that rely on systemctl
  • Run prosodyctl restart && /etc/init.d/jicofo restart && /etc/init.d/jitsi-videobridge restart in bash to restart prosody/jitsi/jicofo (note: running this on systems that rely on systemctl can cause permissions problems)

Docker (based on the stack from jitsi-meet)

• Set the ENV XMPP_MUC_MODULES=token_moderation for prosody at .env or docker-compose.yml.
• Add the file mod_token_moderation.lua to the image at /prosody-plugins-custom. You can use as an example the Dockerfile or you can mount the file directly into the container.

Usage

Just include a boolean field "moderator" in the body of the jwt you create for jitsi, if its true that user will be mod, if not they wont. It works irrespective of which order people join in.

Token body should look something like this:

{
  "context": {
    "user": {
      "avatar": "https:/gravatar.com/avatar/abc123",
      "name": "John Doe",
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "id": "abcd:a1b2c3-d4e5f6-0abc1-23de-abcdef01fedcba"
    },
    "group": "a123-123-456-789"
  },
  "aud": "*",
  "iss": "your_app_id",
  "sub": "meet.example.com",
  "room": "your_room",
  "moderator": true,
  "nbf": 1664475176,
  "exp": 1695998576
}

More detail: https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/tokens.md#token-structure

Important: "moderator" is a boolean type and not a string! Therefore true and false should not be enclosed by " or '!

License

MIT License

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