[asterisk-users] Executing system commands through Manager API

[Steve Edwards]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Carlos Chavez wrote:

> 	I am making a web interface so users can manage their voicemail. 
> The only problem I have is that since the Web server and Asterisk run as 
> different users I need to run some commands through Asterisk so I can 
> manipulate the voicemail files.
>
> 	I know that from the CLI I can user the "!" commando to run any 
> external shell command but when I try to do it from the Manager API 
> using "Command" I cannot get it to work.  Since the web server cannot 
> erase or modify files I need to go through Asterisk to execute rm or mv.
>
> 	Is there an easier way to do this (without changing the user for 
> Apache)?  Is it possible to use the ! command from the Manager?

1) Change the user for Asterisk.

2) man sudo

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Thanks in advance,
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