[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk run as non root

[Paul]

Joseph wrote:

>I'm follows installation instruction from wiki and there is section
>"Running Asterisk not as root"
>It is not difficult to follow, but time taking.
>
>Why isn't this section implemented as in cvs if it is considered as
>security issue?  I'm sure it wouldn't take much time to write a small
>script that would change all the file permission and ownership during
>installation.
>
>  
>
It runs as user asterisk when using the debian packages. If you are 
compiling and installing it yourself, you are responsible to do the 
things that a package maintainer for any linux distro is generally 
expected to do.