[Asterisk-Users] Access Codes

[Dakota]

Can I get some more information on this?
Are there any drawbacks?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander Lopez" <alex.lopez at opsys.com>
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Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 6:58 PM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Access Codes


Or you can use authenticate() and have it take its 'passwords' form a
text file on your machine.


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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> trixter aka Bret McDanel
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 5:37 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Access Codes
>
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 18:00 -0400, Dakota wrote:
> > I would like to setup Asterisk as follows:
> >
> > When users make inter-office calls they can dial the extensions,
> > however if they want to make an external call, that they
> enter a code
> > on their phone, before they external call can go through.
> >
> > We would like to give each user an access code, this way we
> can limit
> > certain employees from making certain calls to certain places.
> >
> > What's the best recommendation for this?
>
> There are 2 basic ways to do this.  You can in your dialplan
> do a read and presumably a db check for the extension (I
> assume you dont want hardcoded accounts, but ...)
>
> The other way is via an agi that does the same thing.  AGIs
> generally take more cpu than equivalent dialplan entries for
> short lived applications, however for a long lived agi it may
> not (although it can take more ram).
>
>
> >
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