<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">hello there. i am running debian 8 in my swerver and i would like to run asterisk as non root. i did follow the <a href="https://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root">https://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root</a> without any success. when i issue</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">root@PBX: ~ $ asterisk -U asterisk -G asterisk</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Privilege escalation protection disabled!</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">See <a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/x/1gKfAQ">https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/x/1gKfAQ</a> for more details.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Unable to access the running directory (Permission denied). Changing to '/' for compatibility.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Asterisk already running on /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl. Use 'asterisk -r' to connect.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">root@PBX: ~ $</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">any ideas on how to fix that please?</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(46,47,48);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"></div>