[Asterisk-Users] running asterisk under root

[Stephen Davies]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Dmitry Mishchenko wrote:

> All example of installing Asterisk shows running it under root user.
> Why is that? Can it be run under regular non-privileged user account.

Sure - with the right permission tweaking.

I made a group "telephony".

Had to fiddle with permissons and set group to "telephony" for stuff
like /etc/asterisk /var/log/asterisk.  And in my case /dev/capi20 etc.

Steve