[Asterisk-Dev] edit zaptel.conf as non-root

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Sat Apr 2 21:16:29 MST 2005


On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 08:07:41PM -0600, Matthew Boehm wrote:
> Why not just run asterisk as a non-root user? Then you don't have to worry
> about letting some script run as root. We run asterisk as non-root and have
> had no problems whatsoever.

Because ztcfg is run by root at modprobe time or slightly later.

So this means I should remove ztcfg from the modules.conf/modprobe.d
settings.

BTW: there are certainly problems of the web interfaces can easily get
the permissions of the Asterisk user, and thus there is not much point
in separating between the two.

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