[asterisk-dev] safe Originate action

[Philipp Kempgen]

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> There are a number of existing Asterisk dialers that just require the
> user to generate a manager interface user, and then originate a call
> through that user.
> 
> This means that the remote user (which is probably a simple phone
> calling user, and not an administrator) is granted almost full ocntorl
> of the PBX.
> 
> A common wisdom has been to require a dedicated proxy to originate those
> calls (whereas another common "wisdom" is to ignore the problem
> altogether). Is there a way to do without that proxy?

IMHO there's no need to define any complex permissions in
Asterisk. Using a custom PHP/Perl script to do that gives
you *much* more flexibility. So what's wrong about that
approach?

Regards,
  Philipp Kempgen

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