[asterisk-users] Re: How to secure access to PSTN line through Linksys gateway?

[Noah Miller]

Hi Vincent -

> >How do you define "authorised"?
>
> Users who successfully registered with the Asterisk server, but regardless,
> even those shouldn't be allowed to make calls through the Linksys since we
> have a VoIP provider that offers better prices for outgoing PSTN calls anyway.
>
> So... is there something that can be done on the Asterisk server to forbid
> anyone from the Net from using the Linksys to make PSTN calls?

In Asterisk: contexts.  Just put extensions to the PSTN lines in a
context that most users don't have access to.

See here on the WIKI about dialplan security:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+security+dialplan

- Noah