[asterisk-bugs] [Asterisk 0010365]: [patch] Add manager command shell for accessing the system shell

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A NOTE has been added to this issue. 
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http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10365 
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Reported By:                bkruse
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    Asterisk
Issue ID:                   10365
Category:                   Core/ManagerInterface
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
Asterisk Version:            SVN 
SVN Branch (only for SVN checkouts, not tarball releases):  trunk 
SVN Revision (number only!): 77884 
Disclaimer on File?:        N/A 
Request Review:              
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Date Submitted:             08-01-2007 16:24 CDT
Last Modified:              08-02-2007 14:57 CDT
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Summary:                    [patch] Add manager command shell for accessing the
system shell
Description: 
This is just a quick patch for doing a system call from manager.

action:shell: Manager command "shell" - executes a command as if you were
at the shell environment

syntax:

action: shell
command: echo "haha" > /verifyworks


Will execute that command at the shell.

action: shell
command: echo "you'll see this in the return message"
getvar: true

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Current problems, if you do a system command, from the gui, try to
get the input back, will it freeze the connection if shell does not
return?

Example:
action: shell
command: while true; do echo "this will never exit :/" ; done
getvar: true

If getvar was not set, it should be fine. I am not sure of a way to
prevent
the user from doing this anyways. 



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 bkruse - 08-02-07 14:57  
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Corydon,

I completely agree. On top of that, what if a manager user has permission
to access the gui (a login), but does not have permission to do system
commands. The gui would become very buggy on some pages that access shell
scripts or manager commands.

Maybe its best we stay with the way we are doing it now, but its kind of a
hack. Originating a call for every system command the gui wants to do?

-bk 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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08-02-07 14:57  bkruse         Note Added: 0068344                          
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