OPTICODEC-PC
STREAMING SERVERS
4-9
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require any-user
Provides unlimited access to the media directory. Allows any user to
access media without providing a username or password. This is the
most common type of access for streaming media.
•
<
Limit Write>
Provides access control for encoder write access to DSS. The
require
statements above can be placed within the
<Limit Write></Limit>
tags. This construct is used for the RTSP announce protocol to limit the
users or encoders, that can broadcast through the server.
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</Limit>
To Add a User:
A)
Open a Command Prompt.
B)
Change the directory to
C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server.
C)
Run:
qtpasswd –f <user filename> <username>
Example:
qtpasswd –f qtusers encoder
where
qtusers
is the DSS user filename and
encoder
is the username.
D)
DSS will prompt for user password. Enter it.
E)
To add additional Users, repeat steps (B) through (D).
Be careful when using
qtpasswd
in with the -c option. The
qtusers
file
also contains the account information of the “admin” user and it is pos-
sible to overwrite the original
qtusers
file.
To Change a User Password:
A)
Open a Command Prompt.
B)
Change the directory to
C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server.
C)
Run:
qtpasswd <username>
Example:
qtpasswd encoder
D)
DSS will prompt for user password. Enter it. The password you enter replaces
the previous password.
Group File Reference (Optional)
The
qtgroups
file is a text file in the DSS root directory, Windows default,
C:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtgroups
. If you have many
users, rather than listing each user it may be easier to set up one or more groups
and then enter the group names.
<groupname1>:<username1> <username2>
<groupname2>:<username3> <username4>
