[asterisk-users] asterisk as non-root/best practices

[CunningPike]

Well, there you go then - either add /usr/sbin to your path, or provide
a full path thusly:

/usr/sbin/asterisk -r

CP


Robert McNaught wrote:
> not in path
> 
> [admin at XXXXXX]$ echo $PATH
> /usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/courier-imap/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/admin/bin
> 
>>
>> Is /sbin in your path?
>>
>> CP
>>
>> Robert McNaught wrote:
>> > 
>> > my problem is that a non-privileged user, eg admin, cannot log in and
>> > connect to the console by issuing the following
>> > 
>> > [admin at XXXX]$ asterisk -r
>> > bash: asterisk: command not found
>> > 
>> > [admin at XXXXX]$ whereis asterisk
>> > asterisk: /usr/sbin/asterisk /usr/lib/asterisk /usr/include/asterisk
>> > /usr/include/asterisk.h /usr/share/man/man8/asterisk.8
>> > 
>> > what is the best way to solve this problem?
>> > 
>> > i have tried adding
>> > 
>> > admin   ALL=(ALL)       ALL    - I will prune back once I verify I can
>> > get this working
>> > 
>> > into visudo, but even that returns asterisk:command not found
>> > 
>> > Does anyone out there know the best way around this - I tried adding in
>> > a symbolic link in /usr/bin/asterisk to point to the
>> > /home/asterisk/asterisk-bin/sbin/asterisk file, which worked, but is a
>> > hack around the problem and don't believe this is the way
>> > 
>> > It seems that non-privileged users cannot run commands in sbin, but can
>> > in bin directories
>> > 
>> > Robert