[Asterisk-Users] Repost: how to configure asterisk user and group rights

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 06:55:42AM +0000, 8 hours after posting exactly
the same message, Obelix wrote:

> 
> 
> I'd like to these three things about asterisk:
> 
> 1. How the asterisk program can be configured to run as a different user from
> root.

man asterisk. There is a switch -U

> 
> 2. what directories and files it must have read and right access to

Hmmm Try running it as a different user. When you get "permissions
denied" it probably means you forgot something.

> 
> 3. Setup an asterisk group, which also has some of the rights the asterisk user
> has rights to, and what else it can be used for.

Did you bother searching the wiki?

http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+non-root

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