QuickTime Streaming Server: Creating Users And Groups

This article explains how to create users and groups, and assign privileges for QuickTime Streaming Server 2.0 authentication on Mac OS X Server.
Note: Authentication requires that clients use QuickTime Player 4.1 or later. Earlier versions of QuickTime Player cannot authenticate. These users receive a 401 error if you use authentication with QuickTime Streaming Server 2.0.

Example: Adding a new user
To add another user, do the same, but leave off "-c," which clears the user and group file for the first user. To add each new user and password onto /etc/qtusers follow the example below.

Example: Adding an additional user
You can repeat this as often as you like, creating different user and group files for QuickTime access. This allows you to have different sets of users and passwords for each directory that needs protecting. The generated /etc/qtusers file is similar to the one show below.
If you have many users, they can be organized into groups by creating a text file /etc/qtgroups. (See example of format below.)
Example: /etc/qtgroups text file
Notice that a space separates each username. This means usernames cannot contain a space. Passwords do not have this limit.

In the local movie directory that you want to protect, create a file named 'qtaccess' with the following information. (You can use this as a template.)
In this example, to authenticate with QuickTime 4.1, the user will either have to provide the name "bassanio" and the right password, or any valid username and password for a member of the group "engineering".
Published Date: Feb 20, 2012