[Asterisk-Dev] rfc: #include "manager.d/*.conf"

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi

The following is not exactly a feature request for Asterisk, because the
code for implementing it is already in HEAD. Rather, it is a matter of
default configuration.

What I'd like is to simplify the process of installing extra
packages/scripts that use the manager interface. Currently I do that by
puttlng the following in manager.conf:

  ; By default asterisk will listen on localhost only. 
  [general]
  enabled = yes
  port = 5038
  bindaddr = 127.0.0.1
  
  ; No access is allowed by default.
  ; To set a password, create a file in /etc/asterisk/manager.d
  ; use creative permission games to allow other serivces to create their own
  ; files
  #include "manager.d/*.conf" 


/etc/asterisk/manager.d/foo.conf (for the user 'foo') could be something like:

  [foo]
	secret=FOOsPass
	read=whatever
	write=whatever

So when you install a program you only need to worry about dropping an
extra little .conf file into a directory (and 'reload'), rather than
editing a file which gnerally complicates the installation.

Naturally, for this to be useful I'd like this as the default not only
on my personal distro.

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