<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>is it possible to change UserAuthenticationDatabase class so that it can be used to limit user access to specific streams?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes, you can do this; however, you don't need to make any changes to the "UserAuthenticationDatabase" code. Instead, the way you would do this would be to subclass "RTSPServer", and reimplement the virtual function</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>virtual Boolean specialClientUserAccessCheck(int clientSocket, struct sockaddr_in& clientAddr,
char const* urlSuffix, char const *username);</div><div>(see "liveMedia/include/RTSPServer.hh")</div><div><br></div><div>You would use a (regular, unmodified) "UserAuthenticationDatabase" to first reject users who don't have *any* access to the server. Then, your reimplemented "specialClientUserAccessCheck()" function would reject users who aren't allowed to access the specific stream (named by "urlSuffix") that's being named.</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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