Is there a way to restict MPD clients to limited actions such as only adding songs to the playlist?
Background: I want to use MPD as a "jukebox" for a party, but guests should be prevented from clearing the playlist, skipping songs, etc. Clients would be Android/iOS apps.
MPD can restrict specific actions to clients identified via a password (and allows multiple passwords with different sets of allowed actions as well):
password <password@permissions>
This specifies a password for access to mpd. The format is "password@permissions" where permissions is a comma delimited list composed of
"read", "add", "control", and/or "admin". "read" allows for reading of the database, displaying the current playlist, and current status of
mpd. "add" allows for adding songs and loading playlists. "control" allows for all other player and playlist manipulations. "admin" allows
the db to be updated and for the client to kill mpd. An example value is "somePassword@read,add". Multiple password parameters may be spec‐
ified.
(from mpd.conf(5)), so adding
password "<your_guest_password>@read,add"
password "<your_admin_password>@read,add,control,admin"
to your config file would allow you to
