[asterisk-users] Executing system commands through Manager API

[Sherwood McGowan]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Steve Edwards
<asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Carlos Chavez wrote:
>
>>       I am making a web interface so users can manage their voicemail.
>> The only problem I have is that since the Web server and Asterisk run as
>> different users I need to run some commands through Asterisk so I can
>> manipulate the voicemail files.
>>
>>       I know that from the CLI I can user the "!" commando to run any
>> external shell command but when I try to do it from the Manager API
>> using "Command" I cannot get it to work.  Since the web server cannot
>> erase or modify files I need to go through Asterisk to execute rm or mv.
>>
>>       Is there an easier way to do this (without changing the user for
>> Apache)?  Is it possible to use the ! command from the Manager?
>
> 1) Change the user for Asterisk.
>
> 2) man sudo
>
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Another possibility would be to use the IMAP or ODBC storage option
for Voicemail? Just a thought :)