[asterisk-users] allowguest defaults to yes for SIP

Administrator TOOTAI admin at tootai.net
Thu Nov 12 08:41:42 CST 2009


Lee Howard a écrit :
> In your sip.conf file allowguest defaults to yes.  This means that 
> anyone that can reach the SIP ports on that system has access to make 
> unauthenticated calls, by default.  The administrator actually has to go 
> in and turn it off to prevent unauthenticated SIP calls (in whatever 
> context [general] points at).
>
> Does anyone else agree with me that this is a poor default?  I'd like to 
> see the default setting changed.
>
> It seems to me that this default is the reason behind the 
> doc/security.txt bias against using the "default" context for toll calls.
>   
Agree. Another possibility would be to have a guestcontext defined in 
default. This context would exist but empty.

-- 
Daniel



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