Icecast Streaming Media Server

[Anonymous]

We have a very dynamic icecast2 server, with new sources/mounts being added all the time. I like that mounts get added dynamically when a new source connects, but it seems that every source has to use the same password that's defined in the global <authentication> section of the config file. I'd like for each source to have their own password. I know I can accomplish this by creating a seperate <mount> section for each source, but a monolithic config file gets difficult to manage with 100+ <mount> sections.

It would be great if I could use url-based or htpasswd authentication for sources in the global <authentication> section. Any plans for that?

Another option would be to put each <mount> section in its own file, and then have an option in the main config to include the additional config files. That would at least make things more manageable.

Does anyone have suggestions for a workaround to solve this problem?

[karlH]

Not in 2.3.1, in my branch though I've implemented an auth_url option (stream_auth) for specifying a url for authenticating source clients but no wildcard/regex matching on mountpoints as of yet.

karl.