Re: Missing readme for icecast

[Leo Spalteholz <leo@thewoodpecker.ca>]

On October 28, 2002 05:21 am, Jon-o Addleman wrote:
> 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?

Yes.  Well I've tried everything...

One thing I noticed was that the output from makepasswd changes all 
the time for the same cleartext pass. 
Is it supposed to be doing that?

thanks,
Leo