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Hi there,

I have installed VLS 0.5.4+cvs20031028-9 on my Ubuntu machine. I used the default vls.cfg file. I want to login to the VLS and issue the basic commands [Start/Stop/Resume..]. But I am not able to login to the VLS.

I see the same vls.cfg file working on Windows. On Linux, I used the password for users that I generated from mkpasswd.

I did the following to generate the encrypted password.
$ mkpasswd admin ad
adpexzg3FUZAk

Part of my vls.cfg file:

BEGIN "Groups"
groupAdmin = "start|resume|suspend|stop"
END

BEGIN "Users"
admin = "adpexzg3FUZAk:groupAdmin" # Passwd is admin
END

I did the following to run the vls
$vls -f ./vls.cfg -vvvv

I am able to see the port 9999 opened, when I run vls. The following are the steps I followed and their respective traces.

$ telnet localhost 9999
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.

Videolan Server Administration System

Login:

I tried logging in with the all the users I have created and got failed. The trace I see in the vls log is

[WARN/Vls] Authentication failed for user "admin"
...

It will be helpful if you can send me the steps I should follow or a sample vls.cfg that can work on "Linux".

PS: I cannot use VLC for this specific requirement.

Thanks and Regards,
Madhi

Noone will be able to help you on VLS.

Should I use VLC instead?

After reading VLC vs. VLS [Section 2.2 in videolan-faq-en.pdf], I am afraid of any performance related issues when using VLC instead of VLS.

Can you please think of any limitations or drawbacks with VLC in comparison with VLS?

Thanks and Reagrds,
Madhi