[Asterisk-Users] Rights problem with Voicemail and non-root user - yeah I know, I thought I had it fixed...

[Chuck Bunn]

Hi,

I thought I had this problem licked but there still is a rights problem 
with ARI and Asterisk when using a non-root user (Following the wiki at 
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-pagehistory.php?page=Asterisk+non-root&diff2=25). 
When I issue the following:

chmod --recursive u=rwX,g=rX,o= /var/spool/asterisk

The above command results in the following rights on messages:

msg0000.gsm    rwxr-x---       asterisk
msg0000.txt    rw-r-----       asterisk
msg0000.wav    rwxr-x---       asterisk

I can transfer voicemails and play them but new messages comming in get 
the following:

msg0000.gsm    rwx------       asterisk
msg0000.txt    rw-r--r--       asterisk
msg0000.wav    rwx------       asterisk

After changing the rights a transferred messages has the folowing rights:

msg0000.gsm    rw-r-----       apache
msg0000.txt    rw-r-----       apache
msg0000.wav    rw-r-----       apache

New voicemail cannot be played, deleted or transferred by the ARI 
application. Apache is belongs to the Asterisk group. I thought I 
understood SUID, GUID and sticky bit now I am not so sure. What is 
really confussing to me is why the rights on the .txt file do not match 
the other 2 after running the 'chmod --recursive ...' command. Any help 
here would be greatly appreciated. I am using the lastest versions of 
Asterisk 1.2.4 and Zaptel 1.2.3, etc.

Thanks