Re: [asterisk-users] Running asterisk as non-root

2017-03-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 08:54:22PM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: > I found a page that assisted in running asterisk as non-root. > > My question is why is the default install not more friendly in this > manner??? It requires either creating a user or making sure such a user exists. That's not a

Re: [asterisk-users] Running asterisk as non-root

2017-03-21 Thread Dovid Bender
From: jerry.g...@gmail.comSent: March 21, 2017 8:54 PMTo: asterisk-users@lists.digium.comReply-to: asterisk-users@lists.digium.comSubject: [asterisk-users] Running

[asterisk-users] Running asterisk as non-root

2017-03-21 Thread Jerry Geis
I found a page that assisted in running asterisk as non-root. My question is why is the default install not more friendly in this manner??? I mean basically the instructions changed the permissions to allow GROUP write, so 775 instead of 755 and changed the astrun to be a directory Why doesn't

[asterisk-users] Running asterisk as non root user

2008-08-17 Thread Shaun Wingrin
Hi, I've followed instructions of the book AsteriskFutureOf TelephonySecEdit on page 295 onwards ) Link to the Asterisk book: http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf) and get an error when running service asterisk start. The error is: cat: /var/run/asterisk.pid: No such file or

Re: [asterisk-users] Running asterisk as non root user

2008-08-17 Thread Alan Lord
Shaun Wingrin wrote: Hi, I've followed instructions of the book AsteriskFutureOf TelephonySecEdit on page 295 onwards ) Link to the Asterisk book: http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf) and http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf) and get an error when

Re: [asterisk-users] Running asterisk as non root user

2008-08-17 Thread Lee, John (Sydney)
] Running asterisk as non root user Hi,   I've followed instructions of the book AsteriskFutureOf TelephonySecEdit on page 295 onwards ) Link to the Asterisk book: http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf) and get an error when running service asterisk start. The error is: cat: /var/run

[Asterisk-Users] Running Asterisk as non-root

2006-05-05 Thread hugolivude
I saw where one should not run Asterisk as root: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+non-root How important is this? Thanks, just curious whether it's worth the trouble. H ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Running Asterisk as non-root

2006-05-05 Thread Luki
I saw where one should not run Asterisk as root: How important is this? It's probably not very important at the moment, however, it's not that hard to do either. I run Asterisk non-root and in a chrooted environment -- it keeps all necessary files nicely separated (easily portable, easy to

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Running Asterisk as non-root

2006-05-05 Thread Douglas Garstang
] Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 4:53 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Running Asterisk as non-root I saw where one should not run Asterisk as root: How important is this? It's probably not very important at the moment, however

[Asterisk-Users] Running asterisk as non-root: Zaptel Permission Probs

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Boehm
As a security precaution, we run asterisk as non-root. When zaptel /dev/ devices are created, they get owned:groupd as root:root with rw-r--r-- permissions. As such, chan_zap is unable to work due to bad permissions. Is it safe to simply change permissions on all /dev/zap/* stuff to rw-rw-rw ?

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Running asterisk as non-root: Zaptel Permission Probs

2005-03-13 Thread Julian J. M.
Why not chown to the user asterisk is running under? That way you don't give write access to everybody. AMP does that. Julian J. M. On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:31:12 -0600, Matthew Boehm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As such, chan_zap is unable to work due to bad permissions. Is it safe to simply

Re: [Asterisk-Users] running asterisk as non-root

2004-02-15 Thread Fran Boon
Due to security reasons I want to run asterisk as a non root. http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+non-root This HOWTO works for great for me :) F ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Asterisk-Users] running asterisk as non-root

2004-02-14 Thread Birk Bremer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone Due to security reasons I want to run asterisk as a non root. I normaly installed asterisk, created an * user, moved the binaries to /usr/bin and chowned all the files and directories mentiont in the * manual (handbook-draft.pdf) Now I