Re: [Motion-user] How to Secure the feed port

[Peter M. <pet...@go...>]

2008/2/17, Ronald D. Mapes Jr. <ro...@ma...>:
>
> Hello All,
> This is a great program, I have it running on Ubuntu CLI server. Took a
> bit to get things squared away, but lots of info on the internet. I
> would like to know if there is a way to secure the video port I have
> chosen so that the user has to login? I have configured Apache2 with
> SSL, requiring a login. That works, I have a link from my
> firewall/router another Ubuntu box running Apache once logged in. But, I
> notice that the port is still available to the world if you plug in the
> url and port. I have tried different rules in iptables, but just cannot
> seem to lock it. When I do lock it I cannot get to it when I login.
> I checked the mailing list and did not see anything there regarding this
> part. If someone has completed a setup for this would you be willing to
> share the details? I was able to get the ftp, e-mail working.
>
> Regards,
> Ron



Ron,

there´s a setting in motion.conf called webcam_localhost, which does just
that. Set it to on and the streaming port shouldn´t answer anymore.

regards,
Peter Marquardt