> On Jan. 1, 2014, 1:41 a.m., Matt Jordan wrote:
> > /trunk/contrib/asterisk.service, line 12
> > <https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3062/diff/2/?file=49947#file49947line12>
> >
> >     Looking at how safe_asterisk spawns Asterisk, I'm not sure specifying 
> > an explicit run user is appropriate here. There's no guarantee that there's 
> > a user named "Asterisk" on the system.
> 
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>     Two answers here:
>     
>     1. I guess that the stock systemd answer would be: "run asterisk as the 
> user asterisk. That way, the username and/or group name could be overiden in 
> /etc/systemd/system/asterisk.service".
>     
>     I remember we have some good reasons to let Asterisk drop privileges on 
> its own. But let's try to reconsider them?
>     
>     2. So, maybe we should have asterisk_wrapper (any better name?) that will
>     
>     * Test for the requirements (perhaps as a subcommand for a Pre script?)
>     * Set up system-dependent setting
>     * Start asterisk a single time.
>     * Handle failures.
>     
>     I also considered this previously because safe_asterisk makes it very 
> simple to override the asterisk binary to a local live_ast copy by dropping a 
> single file in /etc/asterisk/startup.d (with a single line that may, or may 
> not, be remmed-out).
> 
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>     I looked into running Asterisk as non-root. But I can't find a way to get 
> systemd to generate /var/run/asterisk as a writable directory to the service. 
> It can be done by a Pre script. But the Pre script has to be configured with 
> the username. So I think that a single wrapper script is the best option.

As others pointed out, this can be handled by tmpfiles.

BTW: safe_asterisk still creates the AST_RUN_DIR, which is, by now, pointless.

So, what other things asterisk needs root for?

* Setting a high scheduling priority
* prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, 1


- Tzafrir


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On Dec. 24, 2013, 4:49 p.m., Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 24, 2013, 4:49 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for Asterisk Developers.
> 
> 
> Repository: Asterisk
> 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> Installs a systemd service file for Asterisk.
> 
> Systeemd is the new "one daemon to rule them all" for Linux: 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/
> On systems without systemd this should be just a harmless (though maybe 
> annoying) text file.
> 
> This is aimed at replacing safe_asterisk with a more reliable main loop. It 
> almost does that. Is still fails to handle failures, as it seems that 
> systemd's ExecPostStop command does not get the exist status of the stopped 
> command.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   /trunk/contrib/asterisk.service PRE-CREATION 
>   /trunk/Makefile 404563 
> 
> Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3062/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tzafrir Cohen
> 
>

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