[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail Passwords

[BJ Weschke]

 I see what you're saying. Unless someone else responds with the
issue, I'll look at the code a little later this evening. It sounds
like the changed password via IVR is going into the ast-db, and then
that new value is ignoring what's in voicemail.conf.

On 5/11/05, Jeff Heath <jheath1 at optonline.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 21:25, BJ Weschke wrote:
> >  voicemail.conf
> >
> >  edit that file and issue a reload to change them.
> 
> I tried this, but I still can't get access to voicemail from one of the
> phones.
> 
> This is a test system that I setup about a month ago.  Got busy and am
> just now getting back to it.  I have 2 SIP phones and the Asterisk
> server.  The default voicemail password is 1234 for both extensions.  I
> changed the password for one of them and (doh!) forgot/lost it.
> 
> Since this is a test system, I tried an experiment.  I went into the
> phone where I can get access to voicemail, and I manually changed the
> password from 1234 to 4567.  Then I issued a reload (the default
> passwords in voicemail.conf are 1234).  Then I accessed voicemail again,
> and the password is 4567 not 1234.
> 
> This makes sense to me.  Otherwise, every time asterisk was restarted or
> reloaded all the user's personal voicemail passwords would be reset.
> Surely, I'm not the first dope that's changed a password and forgot it
> :-)
> 
> I can't believe there's not a file somewhere that the administrator can
> directly edit to change user voicemail passwords, but I've been
> searching the Wiki and googling on lists.digium.com and searched all the
> Asterisk documentation I can find and I can't find it.
> 
> So, how does the administrator reset a user's password?
> 
> fyi, here are my extensions.conf and voicemail.conf
> 
> extensions.conf
> 
> [general]
> static = yes
> writeprotect = yes
> 
> [from-sip]
> exten => 4035,1,Dial(SIP/4035,20)
> exten => 4035,2,Voicemail(u4035)
> exten => 4035,102,Voicemail(b4035)
> exten => 4035,103,Hangup
> 
> exten => 4009,1,Dial(SIP/4009,20)
> exten => 4009,2,Voicemail(u4009)
> exten => 4009,102,Voicemail(b4009)
> exten => 4009,103,Hangup
> 
> ; This defines the number to access VM.
> ; The caller's extension number is passed as a variable, so
> ; all the user needs to do is type in the password.
> exten => 4040,1,VoicemailMain(${CALLERIDNUM})
> 
> [local]
> include => from-sip
> 
> voicemail.conf
> 
> [general]
> format = wav49|gsm|wav
> serveremail = asterisk
> attach = yes
> maxmessage = 180
> maxgreet = 60
> skipms = 3000
> maxsilence = 10
> silencethreshold = 128
> maxlogins = 3
> 
> [default]
> 4009 => 1234,Jeff
> 4035 => 1234,Pam
> 
> >
> > On 5/10/05, Jeff Heath <jheath1 at optonline.net> wrote:
> > > Where are user's voicemail passwords stored and how does the asterisk
> > > administrator change them?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > Jeff Heath
> > >
> > >
> 
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