[asterisk-dev] handling system commands in AMI

[Philipp Kempgen]

Tzafrir Cohen schrieb:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 07:54:21AM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> This feature is left out intentionally for security reasons.
> 
> Specifically: '!' or '!command' in 'asterisk -r' shell runs a local
> shell rather than a shell on the remote Asterisk process. It's not 
> something that should even go over the wire.

> So you can just as well implement this on the remote side without
> touching Asterisk's code :-)

In what scenario would I want to use "!" then?


    Philipp Kempgen
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