# User Authentication
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111
**Category:** Wowza Developer Dojo
**Tags:** wowza-streaming-server-java-api
**Created:** [May 6, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111 "2007-05-06T23:35:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@system](https://community.wowza.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/1 "2007-05-06T23:35:08Z")
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-user-authentication-for-flash-rtmp-client-using-jdbc-connection-to-mysql-database](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-do-user-authentication-for-flash-rtmp-client-using-jdbc-connection-to-mysql-database)
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/2 "2010-01-04T04:21:37Z")
Take a look at the server-side API. There are several variations of the method IClient.rejectConnection that will send back the proper error status.
Charlie
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### Author:  [@Aditya\_Goyal](https://community.wowza.com/u/Aditya_Goyal)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2010, 8:47am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/3 "2010-01-04T08:47:11Z")
Hi,
is there a way to pass a parameter back to the client which can be used to detect the reason for disconnection?
i would love to be able to tell my client if his connection was rejected due to authentication error / if it was rejected by some other reason (i am using other server side modules too like limiting maximum number of connections). I was hoping to find a way to return a parameter to the client from the onConnect method … when the connection is rejected.
Any help in this direction would be greatly appreciated.
(I am a veteran at java, rookie at wowza and novice at best at action script)
thanks,
Addy
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### Author:  [@Omu\_Omuleanu](https://community.wowza.com/u/Omu_Omuleanu)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2010, 11:22am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/4 "2010-01-12T11:22:36Z")
can I just call a client Method (which is defined inside the client CustomNetConnection class) inside the onConnect so I would tell the client the reason of rejection/acceptance ?
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/5 "2010-01-12T15:28:05Z")
omuleanu,
See this post for an example:
[https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6875](https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6875)
```auto
sendClientOnStatusError(client, "NetStream.Play.Failed", "The client IP was rejected");
```
Richard
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### Author:  [@Aditya\_Goyal](https://community.wowza.com/u/Aditya_Goyal)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2010, 9:30am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/6 "2010-01-04T09:30:50Z")
I stumbled upon this method while digesting the wowza apis… am I moving in the right direction? 😕
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### Author:  [@Aditya\_Goyal](https://community.wowza.com/u/Aditya_Goyal)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2010, 9:33am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/7 "2010-01-04T09:33:57Z")
[https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7051](https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7051)
on the above thread Charlie has used the piece of code sendStreamOnStatusError(stream, “NetStream.Play.Failed”, "Access denied: "+streamName);
which looks like some way of telling the client “ACCESS DENIED” … am hoping to find something similar… but inside the onConnect method. In charlie’s code the play method has been overridden.
Help!!
thanks.
Addy
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### Author:  [@Aditya\_Goyal](https://community.wowza.com/u/Aditya_Goyal)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/8 "2010-01-12T20:52:27Z")
Thanks!! a ton!!
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### Author:  [@Ian\_Beyer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ian_Beyer)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2010, 10:15am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/9 "2010-09-12T10:15:41Z")
That sounds like a job for a content management platform such as Drupal or PHPNuke.
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### Author:  [@Ian\_Beyer](https://community.wowza.com/u/Ian_Beyer)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2010, 10:35am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/10 "2010-09-12T10:35:56Z")
I’d imagine so, if you can query the user table in the CMS database.
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### Author:  [@John\_West](https://community.wowza.com/u/John_West)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2010, 11:33am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/11 "2010-09-12T11:33:38Z")
Hi,
Someone may reply here on the forums and offer to handle your project.
If not, if you need a list of independent consultants who may be willing to bid on your task, please send an email to me at: sales -at- WowzaMedia -dot- com.
Yours,
John West
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### Author:  [@george.mikal\_mikal](https://community.wowza.com/u/george.mikal_mikal)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/12 "2010-04-16T03:52:55Z")
thanks rrlanham for sharing link here…use full for me too
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Stewrt](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Stewrt)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/13 "2010-04-30T03:32:39Z")
> omuleanu,
>
> See this post for an example:
>
> [https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6875](https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6875)
>
> ```auto
> sendClientOnStatusError(client, "NetStream.Play.Failed", "The client IP was rejected");
>
> ```
>
> Richard
Thanks! Helped a lot.
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### Author:  [@gary\_goodger](https://community.wowza.com/u/gary_goodger)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/14 "2010-09-12T03:43:42Z")
Hi,
I want to add SQL user authentication to my membership website.
Is there anyone who could assist me? On here, email or via msn?
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### Author:  [@gary\_goodger](https://community.wowza.com/u/gary_goodger)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2010, 8:30am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/15 "2010-09-12T08:30:33Z")
> That sounds like a job for a content management platform such as Drupal or PHPNuke.
Hi mate,
I run Amember, its similar to PHPnuke and should work in the same way database wise.
Would this script work with it?
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### Author:  [@gary\_goodger](https://community.wowza.com/u/gary_goodger)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/16 "2010-09-12T08:55:18Z")
well currently I have icecast linking off the database and it works fine.
Now I need to find someone willing to help me install flash/wowza/authentication as I cant even get flash installed on my servers!
Tried both CentOS and Debian :(!!
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### Author:  [@gary\_goodger](https://community.wowza.com/u/gary_goodger)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2010, 9:46am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/user-authentication/111/17 "2010-09-12T09:46:53Z")
I have emailed you John Thanks 🙂