"Motion" users - patch to password protect webcam stream

[permitivity]

Those using "Motion" are probably port-forwarding the webcam stream so they can see it outside of the LAN. The stream is not password protected, so your only security from others seeing the webcam is the port number, which isn't a very good security measure.

There is a patch to add authentication to the Motion webcam stream. But I don't understand how it work. This is the developer's wiki page for the patch. Maybe someone with more Linux knowledge than me can help.

http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/ ... mAuthPatch

As of the latest build, there is no "stream_auth_method" option in the motion.conf file, so this patch is not incorporated into the main install.

[grayman4hire]

What you probably want to do is setup apache or nginx as a reverse proxy for motion (and any other non-ssl internal web site you want to expose securely on the internet).

Google "ngnix reverse proxy" for some sample configuration.