# Incoming Stream Security on Wowza Streaming Engine 4

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/incoming-stream-security-on-wowza-streaming-engine-4/40425>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [February 14, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/incoming-stream-security-on-wowza-streaming-engine-4/40425 "2014-02-14T18:36:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Justin\_McGee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Justin\_McGee](https://community.wowza.com/u/Justin_McGee)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/incoming-stream-security-on-wowza-streaming-engine-4/40425/1 "2014-02-14T18:36:49Z")

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I upgraded to Wowza Streaming Engine 4. I tested an application, and I had some questions about security.

I setup a Publisher name and password in the Streaming Engine Manager with the same name as my application that I setup. Additionally, I setup another Publisher name and password with a different name. I was able to stream on the same application with both Publisher names.

**How can I set this to only allow Publisher 8132 to stream to Application 8132?**

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**Author:** ![Tim\_Dougherty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/tim_dougherty/32/596_2.png) [@Tim\_Dougherty](https://community.wowza.com/u/Tim_Dougherty)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/incoming-stream-security-on-wowza-streaming-engine-4/40425/2 "2014-02-14T23:14:59Z")

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Hi,

It is possible to set a custom publish username and password, per-application, using a custom mapped publish.password file, however, at this time the setup will need to be configured manually using XML. Take a look at **step 3** in this article, which describes the steps:

[**How to enable username/password authentication for RTMP and RTSP publishing (ModuleRTMPAuthenticate)**](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-enable-username-password-authentication-for-rtmp-and-rtsp-publishing)

You will not be able to access or maintain the per-application publisher username and password in Wowza Streaming Engine Manager, however, proceeding with a manual configuration will not cause any operational issues.

I would expect that this feature is under consideration for a later release of WSEM. To be sure, I will run this by our product management team for review.

Please let us know if you need more help with this issue.

-Tim

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**Author:** ![Roger\_Littin1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c89c15/32.png) [@Roger\_Littin1](https://community.wowza.com/u/Roger_Littin1)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2014, 8:04am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/incoming-stream-security-on-wowza-streaming-engine-4/40425/3 "2014-02-17T08:04:00Z")

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Hi,

For Wowza Streaming Engine, there is a new custom property for configuring custom password files per application. Please see [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-security-using-wowza-streaming-engine-manager#custom\_credentials](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-security-using-wowza-streaming-engine-manager#custom_credentials) for details.

Roger.