[Asterisk-Users] User authentication and privileges

[Mark Elkins]

I want to authenticate a user before he is able to use the phone. I also
want to set his privilege as to where he is allowed to call to...

Preferably, the password should be their VoiceMail password,  (every
extension (or is that user?) can have voicemail defined - even if its
not in use?)

...one should be able to enter the password (variable length) as part of
the dial sequence - eg the number to call is 0113140077 and the password
is 1234 so dial something like *1234*0113140077 (no prompting!) and what
should be written to the Accounts file should rather be the extension
that that password is good for... (effectively - the User). 
This way, using voicemail.conf, users can manage their own passwords.

I've seen some wiki stuff on AGI's that allow one to glean for user
passwords..

If the system is smart (and the user not so), after dialing a trunk that
needs a password and none were provided - then asterisk can prompt for
it.

It would also be cool if certain extensions did not need a password...
(phone in MD's office?, Switchboard, Fax (maybe)) - this needs a flag
against the extension - which could be a Privilege Flag.

Privilege Flag: (suggestion)
0=internal calls (and emergency/911)
1=local calls
2=long distance
3=cellular
4=no barring at all (international)

(Somehow need to Tag the class (privilege level) that a number falls
into)

Then what about an additional field in the voicemail.conf file that
specifies what privilege a person has - ie from a phone with zero
privilege, a user with priv 4 can use his password to make an
international call...

I say "user" rather than "extension" because a user should be able to
call from any extension with their own password - the user has the
restriction - not the extension.

Anyone got anything like this?

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