[asterisk-users] Binary/unreadable configuration files?

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Tuesday 25 July 2006 06:12, Eric Bishop wrote:
> Anyone know if it possible to create binary/obfuscated/ human unreadable
> extensions.conf/sip.conf etc.? We would like to deploy a system in an
> environment where not giving out root is still not enough. We want to hide
> the contents of these normally plain text files.

Is a database config <cringe> acceptable?  What about simply running asterisk 
as another user and making the config files mode 400?  I'm not aware of any 
other methods to hide the configuration files.

-A.