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Re: Missing readme for icecast



On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz spake thusly:
> On October 26, 2002 11:51 am, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> > > It appears you need to use an input file containing your
> > > plaintext password - create that with a text editor, or with
> > > 'echo password > filename'.
> > >
> > > Then type 'makepasswd --crypt --clearfrom filename' and it will
> > > output the plaintext password followed by the encrypted version.
> > > Copy and paste that into /etc/icecast/icecast.conf
> >
> > Ok thanks I'll try that.
> 
> Hmm..   Well its running but everytime a source tries to connect it 
> says:
> > [26/Oct/2002:12:41:16] Kicking source 10 [pt004rdt013.res.uvic.ca] 
> [Bad Password] [encoder], connected for 0 seconds, 0 bytes 
> transfered. -1 sources connected
> -> [26/Oct/2002:12:41:16] Kicking all 0 clients for source 10
> 
> I did what you suggested, and the output of makepasswd was:
> boxserver:/etc/icecast/etc# makepasswd --crypt --clearfrom temp
> icecast    178UHCz5f3wWU
> then I copied that into my icecast.conf file so I have a line like 
> this:
> encoder_password 178UHCz5f3wWU
> 
> Is that right?
That's about what I did... you have your source client sending the 
password in cleartext though, don't you?
-- 
Jon-o Addleman



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