How do I restrict the ability to reply to the MOTD

[emmanuelfarrar]

Today I noticed that a user can reply to the MOTD and this in turn broadcast to all users that I have on my Openfire server. Is there a way to restrict replying to this or we can know what user is MOTD using to send this broadcast?

[akrherz]

Are you positive this came back to all users or just the server's admins?

[guusdk]

I would assume that akrherz is correct: a response should be sent only the the users that are an administrator of the server.

You can override this behavior by setting a list of addresses of users that you want to receive these messages using the system property named xmpp.forward.admins (note that this will be used for all messages that are addressed to the server itself, not just for replies to MOTD broadcasts).

[emmanuelfarrar]

Are you positive this came back to all users or just the server's admins?

This seems to be any users. I have verified in Openfire that the users that have broadcasted are not admins. It seems they just reply in the MOTD chat and it broadcast to all users as its own chat from the user that replied.

[emmanuelfarrar]

I would assume that akrherz is correct: a response should be sent only the the users that are an administrator of the server.

You can override this behavior by setting a list of addresses of users that you want to receive these messages using the system property named xmpp.forward.admins (note that this will be used for all messages that are addressed to the server itself, not just for replies to MOTD broadcasts).

Thank you for your reply, but I am not sure this will give me the result I am looking for. I would prefer to either void the ability to reply to the MOTD chat or control the replies to this chat and make it so either only the accoun that generates the MOTD is the only one that can broadcast.