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Chapter 16 Configuring and Managing QuickTime Streaming Server 279
To set up Open-Directory-based user access control:
1 Create user accounts and passwords using Open-Directory-based user account services
(for example, users created with System Settings, System Preferences, or Workgroup
Manager).
2 Create an access file containing the Open Directory users and groups and place it in
the media folder you want to protect.
Note: You can designate qtpasswd-based and Open-Directory-based users and groups
in the same access file.
Note: QTSS supports Open-Directory-based user authentication and group
membership checking that is compatible with qtaccess file authorization, Server
Admin SACL support, and Server Admin to easily enable and disable authenticated
access.
Creating an Access File
An access file is a text file called qtaccess that contains information about users and
groups authorized to view media in the folder where the access file is stored.
The folder you use to store streamed media can contain other folders, and each folder
can have its own access file.
When a user tries to view a media file, the server looks for an access file to see whether
the user is authorized to view the media. The server looks first in the folder where the
media file is located. If an access file is not found, it looks in the enclosing folder.
The first access file that’s found is used to determine whether the user is authorized to
view the media file. The access file for the streaming server works like the Apache web
server access file.
You can create an access file with any text editor. The filename must be qtaccess and
the file can contain some or all of the following information:
AuthName
message
AuthUserFile
user filename
AuthGroupFile
group filename
require user
username1
username2
require group
groupname1
groupname2
require valid-user
require any-user
Terms not in angle brackets are keywords. Anything in angle brackets is information
you supply. Save the access file as plain text (not as .rtf or another file format).
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