In general, if your asterisk is accesible from the internet its much better to have it run as a non-root process. (My opinion is that this should be the default out-of-the-makefile ;) asterisk behaviour) This is the "norm" for more of the servers/services running on a linux system, and can act as a safety-net when things go bad
Stelios S. Koroneos Digital OPSiS - Embedded Intelligence http://www.digital-opsis.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Christian > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:00 AM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [asterisk-users] Running Asterisk as root > > Hi all, > I have seen discussions on this earlier on, but just want to > hear some quick thoughts. > I am running v1.6 of Asterisk on my Ubuntu installation, I > did make config to make it run at boot. Since I've got a > firewall and don't have any other servers running I am not > worried. I have been htinking about running Asterisk as a > seperat user, but haven't done that yet. > Everything is working fine. > What do you think? > Thanks, > Christian > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users