[asterisk-dev] handling system commands in AMI

[Russell Bryant]

On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Nánássy Dániel wrote:
> there is a bug (or a missing feature?) with the Command action. It  
> does not handle the "!" command (e.g. Action: Command\r\nCommand: !  
> echo "something"; sleep 5\r\n\r\n), however this system command can  
> be exectuted in cli.
>
> I made a patch which solves this issue, but before I place a bug  
> report, I would like to ask you wheter was there a discussion about  
> this or this feature is missing by design.
>

This feature is left out intentionally for security reasons.

Of course, there are other ways to execute system commands through the  
AMI in a more round about way by setting up dialplan and originating  
calls.  However, there are ways to limit access to those things.

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Russell Bryant
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