[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:40:36PM -0400, hugolivude wrote:
> I'm running RedHat 9 with a TDM400 (2FXO, 2FXS).  
> 
> I'd like to give my Asterisk users the option of cleaning up their
> voicemail mailbox from their Windows PCs.  I set up Samba and added
> all the users with restricted access to their mailbox only, but here's
> the problem:
> 
> The voicemail .wav files that Asterisk creates have root as both owner
> and group.  
> Since the users do not have root privileges, they can't do
> much with the files.  BTW I'm not sure why the voicemail .wav files
> have root as both owner and group because I followed the instructions
> for running Asterisk other than root (see
> http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+non-root).

Which is a good thing regardless.

> 
> Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges!

Do you want to allow every user to delete another user's voicemail?

If not, how do you sync voicemail users and samba users?

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