Thanks for all answers. One further question: If I run Asterisk as root, and set its group in asterisk.conf to apache, and make no changes to file/folder permissions, will I be able to run "asterisk -rx 'clicmd'" from a php-script (running as user apache with group apache)?
BR, Torbjörn Abrahamsson > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Belanger > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:19 PM > To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Running as non-root > > On 11-10-19 05:50 AM, Torbjörn Abrahamsson wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I would like to run asterisk as an user other than root. I have seen > some > > tutorials on the web, but I would like to know if there is some > official > > how-to for this. Is there? > > > > I looked at a thread on reviewboard regarding this > > (https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/654/). It was Paul Belangers work > trying > > to make the installation process take care of this. But the > conclusion seem > > to be that the parts concerning this was postponed. So, did it make > it in > > some other way? > > > My original goal for that patch was to have asterisk do most of the leg > work setting up the host for a non-root install. At the time I didn't > think any specific part of asterisk actually required root permissions. > Later out I found to properly use snmp you actually need to run > asterisk as root. > > There was also some logic added to the configure script but in the end > it would have been too much work trying to manage all the was to add > users in the different operating systems. > > I had planned to add a script into contrib folder for it, but sadly > never got around to it. Perhaps I'll spend some time on it at > Astricon. > > -- > Paul Belanger > Digium, Inc. | Software Developer > twitter: pabelanger | IRC: pabelanger (Freenode) > Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > 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 -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
