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Example configuration for coturn on AWS
/^external-ip=/ {
print "external-ip=" PUBLIC "/" PRIVATE
next
}
/^static-auth-secret=/ {
print "static-auth-secret=" SECRET
next
}
{ print }
external-ip=PUBLIC/PRIVATE
static-auth-secret=SECRET
listening-port 443
alt-listening-port 3478
fingerprint
lt-cred-mech
stale-nonce
use-auth-secret
realm=example.com
no-loopback-peers
no-multicast-peers
syslog
verbose
tls-listening-port 443
alt-tls-listening-port 3478
cert /usr/local/etc/turnserver.crt
pkey /usr/local/etc/turnserver.key
cipher-list ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:AES256-SHA
no-sslv2
no-sslv3
"use strict";
const assert = require("assert");
const crypto = require("crypto");
const secret = process.argv[2];
assert.ok(secret, "Missing static-auth-secret argument");
// generated credentials expire 4 hours from now
const expiration = Math.floor((Date.now() / 1000) + (4 * 60 * 60));
const username = "example:" + expiration;
const hmacsha1 = crypto.createHmac("sha1", secret);
hmacsha1.setEncoding("base64");
hmacsha1.write(username);
hmacsha1.end();
const password = hmacsha1.read();
console.log("TURN username:", username);
console.log("TURN password:", password);
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bradleythughes commented May 24, 2017

Run awk(1) like this to generate the configuration. This will query the EC2 instance meta-data for the public and private IPv4 addresses and generate a new 20-byte static-auth-secret.

$ awk -v PUBLIC=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4) \
    -v PRIVATE=$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-ipv4) \
    -v SECRET=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc '0-9a-zA-Z' | fold -w 20 | head -n 1) \
    -f turnserver.conf.awk turnserver.conf.example
external-ip=34.251.x.x/172.30.x.x
static-auth-secret=paO4faXUbg2wiCLIirgC
listening-port 443
alt-listening-port 3478
fingerprint
lt-cred-mech
stale-nonce
use-auth-secret
realm=example.com
no-loopback-peers
no-multicast-peers
syslog
verbose
tls-listening-port 443
alt-tls-listening-port 3478
cert /usr/local/etc/turnserver.crt
pkey /usr/local/etc/turnserver.key
cipher-list ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES128-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES256-SHA256:AES256-SHA
no-sslv2
no-sslv3

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bradleythughes commented May 24, 2017

Run turnserver.js like this to generate TURN credentials:

$ node turnserver.js paO4faXUbg2wiCLIirgC
TURN username: example:1495627810
TURN password: tnPplWKVaTzW1LYS+uguhaaAujQ=

Note that these credentials expire 4 hours after they are generated. You can change the expiration time in turnserver.js if desired.

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