[Asterisk-Users] Web Voicemail Permissions

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 06 October 2003 05:13 pm, Carlton J. O'Riley wrote:
> Are there any plans to incorporate the running of Asterisk as a
> non-root user into the current CVS?  There is nothing in Asterisk
> that requires root access as far as I know and this would solve the
> vmail.cgi script permissions problem.

Here's a reason why it might need to run as root:
bash# ls -l /dev/zap/ctl
crw-r--r--    1 root     root     196,   0 Oct  6 13:15 /dev/zap/ctl

-Tilghman