[Asterisk-Users] File permissions and ownership

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:36:18AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> Excellent, thanks for the info!
> 
> I was mostly worried about opening privileged ports, but an initial test 
> showed only high ports opened.
> 
> I'd guess that only files asterisk needs to write need to be owned by the 
> asterisk user, and the other files (eg. sounds) can be owned by root and 
> made world-readable.

The only issue is that as non-root, asterisk can't set the TOS bits
(though iptables can do it for you) and it can't set its own priority
(though nice/renice can help there).
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Martijn van Oosterhout
Ecomtel Pty Ltd