[asterisk-users] asterisk appache issue

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:23:44AM -0700, Steve Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, pankaj pandey wrote:
> 
> > how can i give the root permission to apache ?
> 
> sudo.
> 
> However, without careful configuration you will probably be giving root 
> access to any process that runs as your apache user.
> 
> I've never done it, but I'm guessing you could create a group, make your 
> asterisk user and your apache user members of that group and protect 
> resources appropriately.
> 
> What are you trying to accomplish that you can't using AMI, querying a 
> database, creating a call file or parsing a log file?

Alternatively, as of 1.6.1 (or is it 1.6.2) you have CLI permissions.
You can allow anybody to write to the socket, but only a limited set of
commands to the user 'apache' or whatever. See
/etc/asterisk/cli_permissions.conf .

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