Lee, John (Sydney) schrieb: > I was following the instruction on > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root to re-install my > Asterisk as non-root when I had the following questions/issues: > > > 1) " Use your system's preferred method of adding a new user. Examples: > Red Hat: adduser -c "Asterisk PBX" -d /var/lib/asterisk -u 5060 > asterisk" > ###Why did we have to choose uid as 5060? > ###In fact, do you need to specify the uid at all?
If you don't care: no. > > > 2) "Edit your Asterisk config file (/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf): > astrundir => /var/run/asterisk > Recompile and reinstall Asterisk." > ### Seems a bit strange to modify this before you recompile. > ### As it turns out, the reinstall did not change the astrundir variable > ### You have to manually modify it if this modification is actually > required. Why should /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf have any influence on the compilation? > > > 3) "Also, make note that if you're running udev on your system > (linux-2.6), the /dev directory is dynamically populated with device > nodes, meaning that any permissions you set on /dev/zap will be lost on > your next reboot, and you may get a nasty message such as "Asterisk > ended with exit status 1" > when trying to start asterisk. Read the file > /path/to/zaptel-src-1.2.x/README.udev for instructions on how to change > the user/group assigned to /dev/zap. " > ### There is actually no README.udev file in zaptel source. > ### Do I need to worry about this if "uname -r" returns 2.6.18-8.el5 > ### What actually is udev? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html > > > 4) "Asterisk needs read permission for these directories and their > contents: > /etc/asterisk. > chown --recursive root:asterisk /etc/asterisk" > ### root is not in group asterisk > ### All the while, the instruction has been saying to create a user > asterisk > ### under group asterisk. > ### Does it mean to put root into group asterisk as well??? > ### Or should it be "chown --recursive asterisk:asterisk /etc/asterisk" > ? Probably. > > > 5) Another article says that running as non-root will prevent ToS being > used. > What is ToS? Do I need to be concerned? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_of_Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiffServ_Code_Point > > > Any thoughts? When I last thought about it Asterisk was not really ready to be run as non-root. Maybe it is now. Grüße, Philipp Kempgen -- Asterisk-Tag.org 2008, 26.-27. Mai -> http://www.asterisk-tag.org amooma GmbH - Bachstr. 126 - 56566 Neuwied -> http://www.amooma.de Geschäftsführer: Stefan Wintermeyer, Handelsregister: Neuwied B14998 _______________________________________________ -- 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
