[Icecast] Authentication questions

[oddsock]

At 05:00 PM 2/7/2005, you wrote:
>On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:01:45 +0100, Ron Blok <ronblok at wxs.nl> wrote:
> > Hi Icecast users,
> >
> > I'm implementing a stream with authentication.
> > The basic's are working :-) like a dream!
> > No I am at the point where I need to enter the user information (username
> > and password).
> > Since I have approx 200 users it would by nice if I could add this users in
> > one blow instead of one by one?
> > I have the users file available in a spreadsheet format.
> > If not I have to do them one by one ......
>
>It would be pretty simple to write a tool to do this, but there's
>nothing already existing, as far as I know.
>The authentication file format is simple, it's one user per line, formatted as
>username:hash
>'hash' is the md5 hash of the user's password.
technically it's a hex representation of the md5 hash of the password (note 
the call to util_bin_to_hex()).


oddsock