I'm looking for a way that I can authenticate any user that is logging in the system to broadcast on mount with the follow script that was described in this email I'd received by Karl Heyes.



There's 2 parts, the icecast part and then the script which determines if a connecting DJ should be allowed to continue.

The sample files show how you can specify a url authentication block in a mount section. That part is simple and easy to add.

The script is the thing to need to do. It runs from a web server and is probably in something like php. It takes the details sent via POST and makes a decision on whether to allow them or not. To tell icecast to allow that DJ, all the script needs to do is return a specific header

Default is icecast-auth-user:1

anything else means the DJ is rejected.

so a script like

<?
header ('icecast-auth-user: 1');
?>

will allow any DJ connecting on a mountpoint to authenticate, but you want to limit when and on which mountpoint they connect on. So just expand on that

--------------some more details as to he's talking about-------------------------------

<!-- Only define a <mount> section if you want to use advanced options,
like alternative usernames or passwords
<mount>
<mount-name>/example-complex.ogg</mount-name>

<username>othersource</username>
<password>hackmemore</password>

<max-listeners>1</max-listeners>
<dump-file>/tmp/dump-example1.ogg</dump-file>
<burst-size>65536</burst-size>
<fallback-mount>/example2.ogg</fallback-mount>
<fallback-override>1</fallback-override>
<fallback-when-full>1</fallback-when-full>
<intro>/path/to/stream-intro.ogg</intro>
<max-listener-duration>3600</max-listener-duration>
<hidden>1</hidden>
<authentication type="htpasswd">
<option name="filename" value="myauth"/>
<option name="allow_duplicate_users" value="0"/>
</authentication>
<on-connect>/home/icecast/bin/stream-start</on-connect>
<on-disconnect>/home/icecast/bin/stream-stop</on-disconnect>
</mount>
-->
<!-- other auth possibilities include running a command
to do the auth, mount, user and pass are passed via
stdin to the program
<mount>
....
<authentication type="command">
<option name="filename" value="auth_verify"/>
</authentication>

or

for url auth, the add url needs to return a "icecast-auth-user: 1" http
header for a user to authenicate. Both urls are sent params via POST,
add is sent id, mount, user, pass, ip, useragent
remove is passed id, mount, user, pass, duration

<authentication type="url">

state username/password if url requires it

<option name="username" value="admin"/>
<option name="password" value="hackme"/>
<option name="add" value="http://myauthserver.com/scripts/add_listener.php"/>
<option name="remove" value="http://myauthserver.com/scripts/del_listener.php"/>
</authentication>
</mount -->


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