Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
Thanks for the ideas Chris; most appreciated. Hugh On 8/18/05, Chris Coulthurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to use samba for their checking, you COULD use smb.conf to control which users get in to which folders. You might make /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default readable by all, and make [username] entries in smb.conf to add 'admin user' accesses to only their voicemail directory tree. I know it is doable, but I can't remember all the commands in samba off-hand to do it. Even if this is not EXACTLY the best way to do it, at least it gives you a couple ideas to manipulate... One thing you might think about is using a script to map voicemail extensions to known samba usernames/groups, and have the script chown the specific directories to that samba username and group. I don't know what variables are passed (if any) from Comedian mail, but it doesn't really matter, since that script could read a list of ALL vm/username mappings each time voicemail is left, checked, deleted, and make a change to all of the vm users at the same time. Some would be redundant, but its not exactly eating up a ton of cpu cycles to chown users. Chris Coulthurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: hugolivude [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions Sorry, not following you at all. Perhaps it's a lack of Linux knowledge. I understood that Asterisk puts voicemails in var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/mailbox/###/INBOX. Are you suggesting that I could configure that to be a network drive on each user's computer? If so wouldn't that introduce all kinds of complications like what to do when their computer is off? Thanks for taking the time to respond though, most appreciated. Howard On 8/17/05, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:48:29AM -0400, hugolivude wrote: Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! Do you want to allow every user to delete another user's voicemail? If not, how do you sync voicemail users and samba users? I want each user to see, read and write (delete) their own voicemail ONLY (i.e. a user shouldn't be able to listen to someone elses voicemails). I gave each user an account on the Asterisk box and limited their access to their mailbox folder only. So don't waste your time on saving the voicemail on Asterisk. Save it on a specific folder in an imap server on the user's home directory. If you use a decent mail client, getting notifications for new mails in that folders, deleting them, playing them, and whatever should be easy. On the Asterisk side you only need to keep voicemail config in sync. Maybe it would be easier to just forward every mailbox nnn to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and use an aliases file to do the real forwarding. That way you keep the emails away from Asterisk's config. The downside: no message-waiting indicator. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:40:36PM -0400, hugolivude wrote: I'm running RedHat 9 with a TDM400 (2FXO, 2FXS). I'd like to give my Asterisk users the option of cleaning up their voicemail mailbox from their Windows PCs. I set up Samba and added all the users with restricted access to their mailbox only, but here's the problem: The voicemail .wav files that Asterisk creates have root as both owner and group. Since the users do not have root privileges, they can't do much with the files. BTW I'm not sure why the voicemail .wav files have root as both owner and group because I followed the instructions for running Asterisk other than root (see http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root). Which is a good thing regardless. Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! Do you want to allow every user to delete another user's voicemail? If not, how do you sync voicemail users and samba users? -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
Great idea, thanks! I'd never heard of externnotify. I shudder to think of how many other cool features I'm missing! I'll let u know how it goes. Cheers, Hugh On 8/16/05, Chris Coulthurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion would be, use the externnotify=/usr/bin/myapp feature in voicemail.conf to chown the permissions to something else. Since they are root, asterisk should have no problem deleting and moving them around with less privileges. Chris Coulthurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: hugolivude [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions I'm running RedHat 9 with a TDM400 (2FXO, 2FXS). I'd like to give my Asterisk users the option of cleaning up their voicemail mailbox from their Windows PCs. I set up Samba and added all the users with restricted access to their mailbox only, but here's the problem: The voicemail .wav files that Asterisk creates have root as both owner and group. Since the users do not have root privileges, they can't do much with the files. BTW I'm not sure why the voicemail .wav files have root as both owner and group because I followed the instructions for running Asterisk other than root (see http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root). Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! Thanks, Hugh ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! Do you want to allow every user to delete another user's voicemail? If not, how do you sync voicemail users and samba users? I want each user to see, read and write (delete) their own voicemail ONLY (i.e. a user shouldn't be able to listen to someone elses voicemails). I gave each user an account on the Asterisk box and limited their access to their mailbox folder only. Hugh ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:48:29AM -0400, hugolivude wrote: Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! Do you want to allow every user to delete another user's voicemail? If not, how do you sync voicemail users and samba users? I want each user to see, read and write (delete) their own voicemail ONLY (i.e. a user shouldn't be able to listen to someone elses voicemails). I gave each user an account on the Asterisk box and limited their access to their mailbox folder only. So don't waste your time on saving the voicemail on Asterisk. Save it on a specific folder in an imap server on the user's home directory. If you use a decent mail client, getting notifications for new mails in that folders, deleting them, playing them, and whatever should be easy. On the Asterisk side you only need to keep voicemail config in sync. Maybe it would be easier to just forward every mailbox nnn to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and use an aliases file to do the real forwarding. That way you keep the emails away from Asterisk's config. The downside: no message-waiting indicator. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:48:29AM -0400, hugolivude wrote: Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! Run asterisk as its own user/group. We do. -Matthew ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
I am running Asterisk as its own user/group; at least I followed the instructions for doing so from http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root. Even so new voicemails get created with owner/group as root. Maybe I missed something... Hugh On 8/17/05, Matthew Boehm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:48:29AM -0400, hugolivude wrote: Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! Run asterisk as its own user/group. We do. -Matthew ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
Sorry, not following you at all. Perhaps it's a lack of Linux knowledge. I understood that Asterisk puts voicemails in var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/mailbox/###/INBOX. Are you suggesting that I could configure that to be a network drive on each user's computer? If so wouldn't that introduce all kinds of complications like what to do when their computer is off? Thanks for taking the time to respond though, most appreciated. Howard On 8/17/05, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:48:29AM -0400, hugolivude wrote: Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! Do you want to allow every user to delete another user's voicemail? If not, how do you sync voicemail users and samba users? I want each user to see, read and write (delete) their own voicemail ONLY (i.e. a user shouldn't be able to listen to someone elses voicemails). I gave each user an account on the Asterisk box and limited their access to their mailbox folder only. So don't waste your time on saving the voicemail on Asterisk. Save it on a specific folder in an imap server on the user's home directory. If you use a decent mail client, getting notifications for new mails in that folders, deleting them, playing them, and whatever should be easy. On the Asterisk side you only need to keep voicemail config in sync. Maybe it would be easier to just forward every mailbox nnn to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and use an aliases file to do the real forwarding. That way you keep the emails away from Asterisk's config. The downside: no message-waiting indicator. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
If you want to use samba for their checking, you COULD use smb.conf to control which users get in to which folders. You might make /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default readable by all, and make [username] entries in smb.conf to add 'admin user' accesses to only their voicemail directory tree. I know it is doable, but I can't remember all the commands in samba off-hand to do it. Even if this is not EXACTLY the best way to do it, at least it gives you a couple ideas to manipulate... One thing you might think about is using a script to map voicemail extensions to known samba usernames/groups, and have the script chown the specific directories to that samba username and group. I don't know what variables are passed (if any) from Comedian mail, but it doesn't really matter, since that script could read a list of ALL vm/username mappings each time voicemail is left, checked, deleted, and make a change to all of the vm users at the same time. Some would be redundant, but its not exactly eating up a ton of cpu cycles to chown users. Chris Coulthurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: hugolivude [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions Sorry, not following you at all. Perhaps it's a lack of Linux knowledge. I understood that Asterisk puts voicemails in var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/mailbox/###/INBOX. Are you suggesting that I could configure that to be a network drive on each user's computer? If so wouldn't that introduce all kinds of complications like what to do when their computer is off? Thanks for taking the time to respond though, most appreciated. Howard On 8/17/05, Tzafrir Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:48:29AM -0400, hugolivude wrote: Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! Do you want to allow every user to delete another user's voicemail? If not, how do you sync voicemail users and samba users? I want each user to see, read and write (delete) their own voicemail ONLY (i.e. a user shouldn't be able to listen to someone elses voicemails). I gave each user an account on the Asterisk box and limited their access to their mailbox folder only. So don't waste your time on saving the voicemail on Asterisk. Save it on a specific folder in an imap server on the user's home directory. If you use a decent mail client, getting notifications for new mails in that folders, deleting them, playing them, and whatever should be easy. On the Asterisk side you only need to keep voicemail config in sync. Maybe it would be easier to just forward every mailbox nnn to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and use an aliases file to do the real forwarding. That way you keep the emails away from Asterisk's config. The downside: no message-waiting indicator. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
I'm running RedHat 9 with a TDM400 (2FXO, 2FXS). I'd like to give my Asterisk users the option of cleaning up their voicemail mailbox from their Windows PCs. I set up Samba and added all the users with restricted access to their mailbox only, but here's the problem: The voicemail .wav files that Asterisk creates have root as both owner and group. Since the users do not have root privileges, they can't do much with the files. BTW I'm not sure why the voicemail .wav files have root as both owner and group because I followed the instructions for running Asterisk other than root (see http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root). Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! Thanks, Hugh ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
My suggestion would be, use the externnotify=/usr/bin/myapp feature in voicemail.conf to chown the permissions to something else. Since they are root, asterisk should have no problem deleting and moving them around with less privileges. Chris Coulthurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: hugolivude [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions I'm running RedHat 9 with a TDM400 (2FXO, 2FXS). I'd like to give my Asterisk users the option of cleaning up their voicemail mailbox from their Windows PCs. I set up Samba and added all the users with restricted access to their mailbox only, but here's the problem: The voicemail .wav files that Asterisk creates have root as both owner and group. Since the users do not have root privileges, they can't do much with the files. BTW I'm not sure why the voicemail .wav files have root as both owner and group because I followed the instructions for running Asterisk other than root (see http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root). Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! Thanks, Hugh ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail File permissions
I'm working on an application that monitors, displays and manipulates voice mail messages for individual clients, with an option to click and play in a windows interface. The problem is that I need to create a Samba share that is accessible by the Windows file system object and I don't want to give the share root access. What I need is for the voice mail files to be created with a group other than root and with 770 permissions. From what I can tell, the only way I can do this is to patch the voicemail application. However, this means re-patching every time I update from CVS. It there any possiblilty that the create group and default permissions for the voicemail files and folders could be made options in the voicemail.conf file? Stephen R. Besch ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
