[Asterisk-Users] New Asterisk bounty: SIP simultaneous

[Olle E. Johansson]

> You have not shown us ANY example yet for which this
> facility is *NEEDED*.
> 
Well, I have users that get an account on my PBX.

I really don't care how many phones they want to use, hardware phones on
their desktop or soft phones on their laptop while travelling. It's still a user
with one account. When the PBX dials them, all their phones should ring.

Asterisk doesn't really bother with *users*, it has a device-centric view
of life, universe and propably everything. With Asterisk, the user has to
call me each time he wants a new device connected and I have to reconfigure
his setup.

If I had support for multiple registrations on one [peer] account, the
[peer] would become a user account instead of a device. And the user
could add as many devices as he wanted (up to a defined limit) without
bothering the administrator. I guess that's why a lot of people ask for
this function.

However, since Asterisk doesn't really bother with a user concept,
we really have to teach Asterisk about users. And user groups.
Life is much more than hardware, little Asterisk :-)

I've been discussing this many times, and so has many other people.
I think we need an elegant way of defining users to asterisk so we
connect peers, users, agents and mailboxes to a *user* with one
set of credentials. If you look into your Asterisk configuration,
you will find that there are users and credentials for logging in
everywhere. It's not easy to maintain at all.

After a lot of discussions on the IRC, I'm convinced that we at
some point in time have to add ast_auth - a common infrastructure
for handling users and authentication.

This is a good topic for the Asterisk Developer's Day at Astricon.
Let's bring it up on the agenda - A new user and authentication
structure for Asterisk.

YALMIATASQ - Yet Another Long Mail in answer to a short question.

Hint: I have a new idea for a solution on multiple reg's.
Raise the bounty and I might give it a try. ;-)

/Olle