[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions

[hugolivude]

Great idea, thanks!  I'd never heard of externnotify.  I shudder to
think of how many other cool features I'm missing!  I'll let u know
how it goes.

Cheers,
Hugh

On 8/16/05, Chris Coulthurst <asterisk at shuksan.com> wrote:
> My suggestion would be, use the externnotify=/usr/bin/myapp feature in
> voicemail.conf to chown the permissions to something else.  Since they are
> root, asterisk should have no problem deleting and moving them around with
> less privileges.
> 
> Chris Coulthurst
> chris at shuksan.com
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "hugolivude" <hugolivude at gmail.com>
> To: <Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 11:40 AM
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
> 
> 
> I'm running RedHat 9 with a TDM400 (2FXO, 2FXS).
> 
> I'd like to give my Asterisk users the option of cleaning up their
> voicemail mailbox from their Windows PCs.  I set up Samba and added
> all the users with restricted access to their mailbox only, but here's
> the problem:
> 
> The voicemail .wav files that Asterisk creates have root as both owner
> and group.  Since the users do not have root privileges, they can't do
> much with the files.  BTW I'm not sure why the voicemail .wav files
> have root as both owner and group because I followed the instructions
> for running Asterisk other than root (see
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root).
> 
> Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges!
> 
> Thanks,
> Hugh
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