Error

I have admin privileges on ejabberd, but only on one virtual host. On the other virtual hosts I am only a regular user. I experience this on the web interface, too. The line I put in ejabberd.cfg looks like this:

{acl, admin, {user, "bob"}}.

Explanation

If you do not specify a virtual host on that line, ejabberd will think that all users called 'bob' are administrators, each one on his virtual host.

Solution

If you want to give admin privileges to a particular Jabber ID (in this example 'bob@example.org'), you must specify the user and the virtual host in ejabberd.cfg like this:

{acl, admin, {user, "bob", "example.org"}}.