# Per Application Password File not working for me...

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/per-application-password-file-not-working-for-me/43584>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** server-administration\
**Created:** [August 14, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/per-application-password-file-not-working-for-me/43584 "2014-08-14T14:28:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Marc\_Hauge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Marc\_Hauge](https://community.wowza.com/u/Marc_Hauge)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/per-application-password-file-not-working-for-me/43584/1 "2014-08-14T14:28:06Z")

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Using the documentation available [here](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-security-using-wowza-streaming-engine-manager#custom_credentials), the server continues to only honor the [install-dir]/conf/publish.password file. I am testing with QuickTime Broadcaster (RTSP) with both 4.05 & 4.06 on Windows 2012 R2.

I renamed the publish.password file located in the default Live Application directory to see if it is actually looking to it. In the root wowzastreamingengine\_error.log I see the following which suggests that it is looking there:

ModuleCoreSecurity.onAppStart[live/_definst_]: Publish: RTMP Authorization: password file does not exist:‘F:\Wowza Streaming Engine\conf\live\publish.password’. RTMP Publishing disallowed.

My publish.password is set using the documented way:

# Publish password file (format [username][space][password])

#username password

live live

Help! This is driving me nuts.

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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:** [August 15, 2014, 9:57am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/per-application-password-file-not-working-for-me/43584/2 "2014-08-15T09:57:22Z")

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Hi,

This does appear to be a bug which I will let our engineering team know about.

Please try adding the following property to your application properties and see if that fixes it.

[th]Path[/th]

[th]Name[/th]

[th]Value[/th]

Root/Application

rtspEncoderAuthenticateFile

${com.wowza.wms.context.VHostConfigHome}/conf/${com.wowza.wms.context.Application}/publish.password

Roger.

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**Author:** ![Marc\_Hauge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Marc\_Hauge](https://community.wowza.com/u/Marc_Hauge)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 9:27am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/per-application-password-file-not-working-for-me/43584/3 "2014-08-15T09:27:28Z")

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Adding the above property did the trick. Does this issue impact other broadcast protocols or just RTSP? (Since the key is for rtspEncoderAuthenticateFile)

Thanks Roger!