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The accounts.ini file specifies which messenger services, and accounts on those services that Stepping Stone can use.

Using the MSN Messenger Network

First, create a file named accounts.ini in the correct subdirectory ( click here for locations that Stepping Stone looks for configuration files) Then, open it and create a category called msn like this:

[msn]

On the next line, You should specify what type of encoding is used in the username and password. This is optional, though the default is that the username and password are base64 encoded within the file. If you would actually like the username and password to be plain text in the file, you can specify plain, which is what we will do here for example purposes:

encoding = plain

The next two lines are your username and password, something like this:

username = steppingstone@example.com
password = your_password

If you choose not to specify plain encoding and use the default base64 encoding, your accounts.ini file might look something like this

[msn]
username = c3RlcHBpbmdzdG9uZUBleGFtcGxlLmNvbQ\=\=
password = eW91cl9wYXNzd29yZA\=\=

Note the \=, it is needed so Stepping Stone can tell the difference between the equal signs in the value and the equal sign between the key and the value.

base64 encoding can also be explicitly specified like this:

[msn]
encoding = base64
username = c3RlcHBpbmdzdG9uZUBleGFtcGxlLmNvbQ\=\=
password = eW91cl9wYXNzd29yZA\=\=

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