[Asterisk-Users] Manager

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:24, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Dan wrote:
> 
> > Hi Roy,
> > 
> > It is not much safer to use SSH to connect to the computer and then
> > 'asterisk -vvvvr' to the asterisk console?
> 
> I personally would think so.
> 
> I believe the Manager interface is supposed to be an interface through
> which a remote control-panel type program or web page could connect to
> an Asterisk server.
> 
> It's a straight, unencrypted TCP connection.
> 
> However, does anyone see any reason we couldn't use stunnel on 
> manager-port connections? I've been thinking about trying this out, but 
> have not had the time to actually do it.

Does anyone see any potential problem with eventually linking in ssl in
such a way as to allow connections to be made securely? I do not know
the amount of work this would entail, but this would potentially allow
for our IAX traffic to be encrypted too. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>