[asterisk-users] AppVoicemail overwrites voicemail.conf

[Al lists]

looking more into this, looks like this is not a issue, its related to
users changing voicemail password from handset, asterisk rewrites the file.



On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Al lists <asteriskal at gmail.com> wrote:

> passwordlocatio seems to be related to vmsecret
>
> from voicemail.conf sample :
>
> ; passwordlocation=spooldir
>                     ; Usually the voicemail password (vmsecret) is stored
> in
>                     ; this configuration file.  By setting this option you
> can
>                     ; specify where Asterisk should read/write the
> vmsecret.
>                     ; Supported options:
>                     ;   voicemail.conf:
>                     ;     This is the default option.  The secret is read
> from
>                     ;     and written to voicemail.conf (or users.conf).
>                     ;   spooldir:
>                     ;     The secret is stored in a separate file in the
> user's
>                     ;     voicemail spool directory in a file named
> secret.conf.
>                     ;     Please ensure that normal Linux users are not
>                     ;     permitted to access Asterisk's spool directory
> as the
>                     ;     secret is stored in plain text.  If a secret is
> not
>                     ;     found in this directory, the password in
>                     ;     voicemail.conf (or users.conf) will be used.
>                     ; Note that this option does not affect password
> storage for
>                     ; realtime users, which are still stored in the
> realtime
>                     ; backend.
>
>
> but the issue i was explaining was voicemail.conf getting overwritten
> apparently by appvoicemail
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Paul Belanger <
> paul.belanger at polybeacon.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Al lists <asteriskal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > We noticed issues with voicemail and somehow looks like voicemail.conf
>> has
>> > been overwritten:
>> >
>> > ;!
>> > ;! Automatically generated configuration file
>> > ;! Filename: voicemail.conf (/etc/asterisk/voicemail.conf)
>> > ;! Generator: AppVoicemail
>> > ;! Creation Date: Thu Mar 20 06:48:16 2014
>> > ;!
>> >
>> >
>> > i saw a bug for 1.4 and realtime but our version is 10.12.3 and we are
>> not
>> > using realtime.
>> > anyway to prevent AppVoicemail ro auto generate files?
>> >
>> passwordlocation = spooldir
>>
>> Read voicemail.conf about how to use it.
>>
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