Apple Mac OS X Server manual Configuring Streaming Security, To reset the user name and password

Preparing Older Home Folders for User Streaming

If you want to enable QTSS home folder streaming for home folders created using an earlier version of Mac OS X Server (before version 10.3), you need to set up the necessary streaming media folder in each user’s home folder. You can use the createuserstreamingdir tool to set up the needed Sites/Streaming/ folder.

To set up Sites/Streaming/ in older home folders:

$ createuserstreamingdir user

Parameter	Description
user	The user in whose home folder the Sites/Streaming/ folder is
	created.

Configuring Streaming Security

A certain level of security is inherent in real-time streaming, since content is delivered only as the client needs it and no files remain afterward. But other security issues usually need to be addressed. Aspects of streaming security covered in this section include:

ÂSetting up password protection for content

ÂConfiguring qtaccess to limit access to the media folder

Resetting the Streaming Server Admin User Name and Password

If you forget the Streaming Server Admin user name and password, you can reset them.

To reset the user name and password:

1Log in to the server computer as root, open a Terminal window, and enter the following:

$ qtpasswd someUserName

where someUserName is a name of your choice.

2Follow the prompts by entering the administrator user name and a password you want to assign to the user someUserName.

3Using a text editor, modify the /Library/QuickTimeStreaming/Config/qtgroups file. For Windows, modify the c:\Program Files\Darwin Streaming Server\qtgroups file. For other supported platforms, modify the /etc/streaming/qtgroups file. Modify the file so that the user name you just created or modified is included in the group Admin, as follows:

admin: someUserName

4Save the file as ordinary text (not as .rtf or any other file format).

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