Icecast dev - Jan 2005 - Re : Authentication backend development

Hello,

I am working with a group that is interested in the current authentication
being extended.

So that multiple relays can use the same "password" file (or
database).

I'd love to help the community out with this as well, so it can be open
sourced.

Would anyone (or groups of people) be willing to take it on ?

I was also thinking of putting this type of project on a site like
CodeLance.com ; and getting some people to bid on development, and just
pay the fee -- and get it done !

MySQL backend for all this would be great.

Cheers,

--Matador
I am also Matador on the #icecast channel

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:17:23 -0500 (EST), matador@streamtvnow.com
<matador@streamtvnow.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am working with a group that is interested in the current authentication
> being extended.
> 
> So that multiple relays can use the same "password" file (or
database).
Not sure what you're asking for here - the current mechanisms do this
correctly already (though there might be some race conditions).

Well... unless you're hitting performance problems. The current code
is simple but slow, and could be made much faster without too much
difficulty.
> 
> MySQL backend for all this would be great.
So is this what you're really interested in? This would be very simple
to implement (though I wouldn't choose to do it with mysql,
personally). Slightly harder if you wanted the admin interface to be
able to add/delete/modify users in the database (but even that
wouldn't be particularly hard).

It's just a single table, indexed by username, with two columns
(username, password-hash). Doesn't get much simpler... Certainly
something for a single person to do, it's too small a project for a
group.

Mike

So is this something you can do ? Meaning, have the time, and willing to do.

If so, what would you require for compensation ?

Cheers,

--Matador

> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:17:23 -0500 (EST), matador@streamtvnow.com
> <matador@streamtvnow.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am working with a group that is interested in the current
>> authentication
>> being extended.
>>
>> So that multiple relays can use the same "password" file (or
database).
>
> Not sure what you're asking for here - the current mechanisms do this
> correctly already (though there might be some race conditions).
>
> Well... unless you're hitting performance problems. The current code
> is simple but slow, and could be made much faster without too much
> difficulty.
>
>>
>> MySQL backend for all this would be great.
>
> So is this what you're really interested in? This would be very simple
> to implement (though I wouldn't choose to do it with mysql,
> personally). Slightly harder if you wanted the admin interface to be
> able to add/delete/modify users in the database (but even that
> wouldn't be particularly hard).
>
> It's just a single table, indexed by username, with two columns
> (username, password-hash). Doesn't get much simpler... Certainly
> something for a single person to do, it's too small a project for a
> group.
>
> Mike
>