[asterisk-dev] Security Request for discussion: Should sip.conf allowguest=yes be the default

Atis Lezdins atis at iq-labs.net
Thu Nov 12 13:23:40 CST 2009


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
>
> Please explain to me why exactly allowing guests is a bad thing. How can
> I allow people to call me from the internet? Create a local account for
> each and every one in my addressbook?
>

How about creating context "guest" or "public", and setting it as
default in samples? That would make user to think much more before
adding some code there.

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