[Asterisk-Dev] Active call information

[Venkat Venkataraju]

thanks for the info. i'll look into it and see how it goes. Also, the 
MD5 looks good.

Thanks
Venkat

John Todd wrote:
> 
> As noted, there does seem to be a way to send encrypted passwords in the 
> transaction, but I prefer total encryption of TCP streams versus just 
> encrypting the authentication information.  Until such encryption is 
> built into Asterisk, I would suggest that you use SSH port forwarding as 
> an interim solution to the problem.  "man ssh" and look at the section 
> labelled "remote port forwarding" to get a better idea of how to use 
> this feature.  With this hint, you should be able to figure it out 
> yourself and I hope that this thread will not devolve into a tutorial of 
> how to use ssh, since there is more than adequate documentation 
> available via Google and man pages on this technique.
> 
> Your management machine would execute something like this, after setting 
> up null keys on both systems and creating the appropriate 
> authorized_users file in user "asterisk" on the remote asterisk system:
> 
> ssh -L 5038:myasterisk.server.com:5038 -l asterisk myasterisk.server.com
> 
> Then, just telnet to 127.0.0.1:5038 on the manager machine and you'll be 
> connected to the appropriate port on the remote asterisk system. 
> Additionally, this lets you simplify your firewall lists by making 
> everything connect through port 22 (ssh) instead of opening Yet Another 
> Pinhole.
> 
> JT
> 
> 
> At 9:00 AM -0300 1/3/04, CW_ASN wrote:
> 
>> As far as I know, encrypted passwords isn't posible at this time...
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Venkat Venkataraju" <outofjungle at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 8:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Active call information
>>
>>>  I'm going to write a cleint that connects to the manager and monitors
>>>  the calls. i was wondering whether there is a way to login into the
>>>  manager with encrypted password. if there is one, what protcol should i
>>>  be using to send the password?
>>>
>>>  Thanks
>>>  Venkat
>>>
>>>  CW_ASN wrote:
>>>  > Venkat:
>>>  >
>>>  > If you don't like to use cdr register for any reason, you could 
>>> use API
>>>  > Manager for that.
>>>  >
>>>  > Uncomment all fields from '[general]' section in manager.conf, define
>>>  > username and secret, reload and use astman, or gastman. If you 
>>> like to
>>
>> try
>>
>>>  > with telnet session, you could do:
>>>  >
>>>  > telnet [ip addr * box] 5038
>>>  >
>>>  > and then write:
>>>  >
>>>  > Action: login[enter]
>>>  > Username: [your_login][enter]
>>>  > Secret: [your_secret][enter][enter]
>>>  >
>>>  > Note: two carry returns to finish the command.
>>>  >
>>>  > Then you will see:
>>>  >
>>>  > Response: Success
>>>  > Message: Authentication accepted
>>>  >
>>>  > All calls and details will be logged in this telnet session. Perhaps,
>>
>> you
>>
>>>  > will need to parse the output if you like to send to another system.
>>>  > Finnaly, please go to wiki for more information.
>>>  >
>>>  > Regards,
>>>  >
>>>  > Gus
>>>  >
>>>  > ----- Original Message -----
>>>  > From: "Venkat Venkataraju" <outofjungle at sbcglobal.net>
>>>  > To: <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
>>>  > Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 3:04 AM
>>
>>  > > Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] Active call informatio
>>  > >
>>
>>>  >>Hi All
>>>  >>
>>>  >>
>>>  >>I want to extract information like called number and the channel
>>>  >>whenever a call is being made. This information will be sent to 
>>> another
>>>  >>process to compute duration of the active calls.
>>>  >>
>>>  >>What file should i teak so that i can get this information out of
>>>  >>asterisk? or is there any API which can be used to extract this
>>>  >
>>>  > information?
>>>  >
>>>  >>Thanks
>>
>>  > >>Venkat
>>
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