# How to enable username/password authentication for RTP publishing

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-enable-username-password-authentication-for-rtp-publishing/52979>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [March 11, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-enable-username-password-authentication-for-rtp-publishing/52979 "2019-03-11T15:35:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kiran\_Patil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Kiran\_Patil](https://community.wowza.com/u/Kiran_Patil)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 3:35pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-enable-username-password-authentication-for-rtp-publishing/52979/1 "2019-03-11T15:35:24Z")

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Hi,

Is there a way to enable username/password authentication for RTP publishing ?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Ramberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Andrew\_Ramberg](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Ramberg)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-enable-username-password-authentication-for-rtp-publishing/52979/2 "2019-03-11T16:39:33Z")

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Hello,

You can enable source security for RTSP sources:  
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-enable-username-password-authentication-for-rtmp-and-rtsp-publishing#rtsp](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-enable-username-password-authentication-for-rtmp-and-rtsp-publishing#rtsp)

If you could provide further information on your source encoder (make/model), we might be able to investigate further.

Best regards,

Andrew

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**Author:** ![Kiran\_Patil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@Kiran\_Patil](https://community.wowza.com/u/Kiran_Patil)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 6:24am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-enable-username-password-authentication-for-rtp-publishing/52979/3 "2019-03-12T06:24:34Z")

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Hello,

I am publishing using RTP alone. I am not using RTSP.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Ramberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Andrew\_Ramberg](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Ramberg)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-enable-username-password-authentication-for-rtp-publishing/52979/4 "2019-03-12T15:37:44Z")

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Hi Kiran,

Wowza Streaming Engine doesn’t support RTP authentication. If your encoder supports RTSP, you might want to look into that as an option instead.

Otherwise, if you could provide information on your encoder (make/model) I can look into the details of your encoder and create a feature request based on this information.

Best regards,  
Andrew

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Billings](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Sam\_Billings](https://community.wowza.com/u/Sam_Billings)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-enable-username-password-authentication-for-rtp-publishing/52979/5 "2023-05-15T14:19:51Z")

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Hey Andrew  
Is it possible to do this for an IP-Camera that sends Stream to wowza Streaming Engine?  
For now, i have a streamfile for the ip-camera. The url of the streamfile inclueds the username and password of the camera. Is there any way to avoid putting the username and password in this url and put somewhere else?

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**Author:** ![Dulcieveeta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/dulcieveeta/32/1307_2.png) [@Dulcieveeta](https://community.wowza.com/u/Dulcieveeta)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/how-to-enable-username-password-authentication-for-rtp-publishing/52979/6 "2023-05-27T15:24:26Z")

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@Kiran_Patil and also I am not using RSTP.