[Icecast] relaying of an htpasswd-protected stream

Karl Heyes karl at xiph.org
Mon Jan 15 22:33:44 UTC 2007


Philipp Flesch wrote:
> hi!
> is there a (build-in) possibility to relay a password protected stream 
> without using a tool to recode the stream?

just supply the <username> and <password> in the <relay> section

> Removing password-protecting from the stream everything works fine ... - 
> I also found a possibility to add protecting on the relay-server ...

any listener auth (whether it is for a source client or relay) goes 
within a <mount> section, and may have completely different 
authentication from what the master uses.

karl.





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