[Asterisk-Users] MOH/mpg123 broken when running asterisk as non-root?

[Steve Maroney]

Can non-root users play mp3's with mpeg123 ? It may be a permission
problem with your audio device files.

Thank you,
Steve Maroney

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, john lawler wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> For the first time, I'm attempting to run asterisk as a non-root user
> for all of the obvious reasons.
>
> I'm attempting this with asterisk-1.0-RC2, based on the fairly
> straightforward directions found here:
>
> 	http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+non-root
>
> The only problem I can't get figured out is my mpg123 processes not
> being spawned properly.  There's this note on the page from May:
>
>    http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+non-root#comments
>
> from someone else who felt my pain, and I've even gone in and hacked
> around in res/res_musiconhold.c a bit to try to see if explicitly
> forking mpg123 as a process owned by my non-root user would help.  It
> doesn't seem to.
>
> Has anyone else succesfully fixed this issue?  (And yes, I've done the
> standard googling and archive searching on this issue).
>
> Thanks,
>
> jl
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