[icecast-dev] Icecast User Login Question

Karl Heyes karl at xiph.org
Mon Nov 3 12:28:11 PST 2003



On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:54, Dave St John wrote:
> Good question Amy, here is a snippet of the icecast2.xml file that i do
> believe is for this function
> ---------------------
>     <mount>
>         <mount-name>/test2</mount-name>
> 
>         <username>admin</username>
>         <password>holycow</password>
> 
>         <max-listeners>1</max-listeners>
>         <!-- <dump-file>/tmp/dump-example1.ogg</dump-file> -->
>         <fallback-mount>/example2</fallback-mount>
>     </mount>
> ------------------------
> 
> Someone please correct me if i am wrong.

This is for the source login, not the listener.  At the moment there's
no listener login authentication, it's been mentioned before but hasn't
been implemented yet.  I can have a look at implementing this when I get
chance.

> Dave St John
> (CEO) Mediacast1.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "AMY E. BEAM" <beamae at email.uc.edu>
> To: <icecast-dev at xiph.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:46 PM
> Subject: [icecast-dev] Icecast User Login Question
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have stumbled upon your email address in my search for
> > finding an answer to a problem I'm looking into for school.
> >
> > I attend the Univ. of Cincinnati and am working on my Senior
> > Design Capstone project. I am working with a local
> > independent radio station, WOXY, which is interested in
> > updating its streaming radio to Icecast. I have taken this
> > project under my wing and have tried to determine if it's
> > doable.
> >
> > My question is that WOXY would like to have a subscription
> > service to their Icecast server so that they could stream
> > more then 56Kb to their users. However I have been unable to
> > find any documentation for Icecast 2 that says they have user
> > login capability. I see that Icecast 1 does use a flat text
> > file for general user login. Do you know if Icecast 2 is
> > planning anything like this? Do you have any suggestions as
> > to where I can find out this information?
> >
> > I really appreciate your help and look forward to your answer!

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