[Asterisk-Users] Manager

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 31 July 2003 12:13, Steven Critchfield wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:24, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Dan wrote:
> > > Hi Roy,
> > >
> > > It is not much safer to use SSH to connect to the computer and
> > > then 'asterisk -vvvvr' to the asterisk console?
> >
> > I personally would think so.
> >
> > I believe the Manager interface is supposed to be an interface
> > through which a remote control-panel type program or web page could
> > connect to an Asterisk server.
> >
> > It's a straight, unencrypted TCP connection.
> >
> > However, does anyone see any reason we couldn't use stunnel on
> > manager-port connections? I've been thinking about trying this out,
> > but have not had the time to actually do it.
>
> Does anyone see any potential problem with eventually linking in ssl
> in such a way as to allow connections to be made securely? I do not
> know the amount of work this would entail, but this would potentially
> allow for our IAX traffic to be encrypted too.

I doubt it.  IAX is UDP.  We'd have to use some other method of native
encryption for IAX.

-Tilghman