[asterisk-users] Newbie Asterisk: Install Asterisk as non-root

[Alan Lord]

James Sneeringer wrote:
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>> Also note that asterisk.conf options override command-line options (and
>> not the other way around, as you might have learned to expect from most
>> other applications).
> 
> Some asterisk.conf options, such as runuser and rungroup, don't appear
> to work at all. I can get Asterisk to run non-root using -U and -G on
> the command line, but attempting to do it in asterisk.conf instead
> doesn't work for me. The command line is good enough for me, so I
> haven't taken the time to figure out why it doesn't work.

My uneducated guess would be that for Asterisk to parse the 
asterisk.conf file it has to be running... Therefore it must already be 
running as the user which it was told to run as.

Alan


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