[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions

[hugolivude]

Thanks for the ideas Chris; most appreciated.

Hugh

On 8/18/05, Chris Coulthurst <asterisk at shuksan.com> wrote:
> If you want to use samba for their checking, you COULD use smb.conf to
> control which users get in to which folders.  You might make
> /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default readable by all, and make [username]
> entries in smb.conf to add 'admin user' accesses to only their voicemail
> directory tree.  I know it is doable, but I can't remember all the commands
> in samba off-hand to do it.
> 
> Even if this is not EXACTLY the best way to do it, at least it gives you a
> couple ideas to manipulate...
> 
> One thing you might think about is using a script to map voicemail
> extensions to known samba usernames/groups, and have the script chown the
> specific directories to that samba username and group.  I don't know what
> variables are passed (if any) from Comedian mail, but it doesn't really
> matter, since that script could read a list of ALL vm/username mappings each
> time voicemail is left, checked, deleted, and make a change to all of the vm
> users at the same time.  Some would be redundant, but its not exactly eating
> up a ton of cpu cycles to chown users.
> 
> Chris Coulthurst
> chris at shuksan.com
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "hugolivude" <hugolivude at gmail.com>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions
> 
> 
> Sorry, not following you at all.  Perhaps it's a lack of Linux knowledge.
> 
> I understood that Asterisk puts voicemails in
> var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/mailbox/###/INBOX.  Are you suggesting
> that I could configure that to be a network drive on each user's
> computer?  If so wouldn't that introduce all kinds of complications
> like what to do when their computer is off?
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to respond though, most appreciated.
> 
> Howard
> 
> On 8/17/05, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:48:29AM -0400, hugolivude wrote:
> > > > > 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?
> > >
> > > I want each user to see, read and write (delete) their own voicemail
> > > ONLY (i.e. a user shouldn't be able to listen to someone elses
> > > voicemails).  I gave each user an account on the Asterisk box and
> > > limited their access to their mailbox folder only.
> >
> > So don't waste your time on saving the voicemail on Asterisk. Save it on
> > a specific folder in an imap server on the user's home directory.
> >
> > If you use a decent mail client, getting notifications for new mails in
> > that folders, deleting them, playing them, and whatever should be easy.
> >
> > On the Asterisk side you only need to keep voicemail config in sync.
> > Maybe it would be easier to just forward every mailbox nnn to
> > nnn at localhost and use an aliases file to do the real forwarding. That
> > way you keep the emails away from Asterisk's config.
> >
> > The downside: no message-waiting indicator.
> >
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