How can I set a login password

[Edelwiess]

I setup my aria2 on vps
and aria2 webUI on same vps
Now anyone can use httpurl to access in to download thing on my vps.
I need to setup a password for webUI how can I do that?

[safiyat]

@Edelwiess You can use the --rpc-secret switch with aria2c to enable a password for access.
You can also do it via a configuration file. The configuration file at $HOME/.aria2/aria2.conf should contain:

rpc-secret=<password>

[leolelego]

I agreed, set password for the RPC is possible, but not for the WebUI, so everybody with the URL of my server can go to the webui and download file on my server.

Somebody try a htaccess or something ?

[safiyat]

The web-UI can be accessed from anywhere! If you lock your UI with .htaccess, the attacker will use his own UI, but of course it won't work without authorizing RPC.

[Edelwiess]

finally I set RPC on VPS and set webUI server in local
that fixed this problem.

[imirzadeh]

If you want to run webui-aria2 on your own vps, you can use nginx:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-password-authentication-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04

[alexya]

@Edelwiess I met the same issue. I only need to run aria2-webui in my local machine. Every time I have to input the "secret" to connect to my aria2 server.
How did you resolve the issue? such as save or hard-code the secret to webUI local?
Thx a lot.