[Asterisk-Users] Manager

[Greg Renouf]

Perhaps it would make sense to integrate the Manager function controls into
IAX2?  From my understanding, IAX2 already has built-in encryption (MD5 or
RSA)- communications would be secured this way.

Many of the 'Manager' features could be useful to 'superusers' (e.g.
receptionists, local operators.)  If these features were available in IAX2,
it would then be possible to add these features to the user's IP phone
without having to integrate two different architectures.

Match this with a CGI/IAX2 client app (and perhaps a Windows .dll) and we
then have an standard interface for all interactions between end-users,
system managers & * servers.

Just a random idea- please feel free to tear it apart...

-GSR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tilghman Lesher" <tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Manager


> 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
>
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