[asterisk-users] Run as root?

In looking at the safe_asterisk script, it would appear that it is encouraging the running of the Asterisk application as root user. My natural inclination is to run it as a non-privileged user. What is recommendation? + This e-mail was checked by the TecInfo Content Scanning

Re: [asterisk-users] Run as root?

Hi Malcom, my advice is to run asterisk as non-privileged user. And do not user safe_asterisk script if u can...it cannot check if it running and you can have many safe_asterisk running in memory...moreover this fills your CLI with a lot of annoying remote unix connection messages. Giorgio

Re: [asterisk-users] Run as root?

Malcom Kemp wrote: In looking at the safe_asterisk script, it would appear that it is encouraging the running of the Asterisk application as root user. My natural inclination is to run it as a non-privileged user. What is recommendation? the recommendation is not to run as root, and have