[asterisk-users] SKYPE - Authenticate incoming call

[A J Stiles]

On Friday 16 Jul 2010, Neeraj Chand wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> After getting licences for Skype for asterisk a while ago I finally
> got
> >> around to setting up a server with two channels and setting up a bcp
> on
> >> the skype end.
> >>
> >> The idea behind this is the following:
> >>
> >> Users can dial into the PBX, get authenticated and only after>
> >> authentication get access to internal PBX extensions.
> >>  *snip*
> >None of this is necessary; Skype already supports restricting to calls
> >to only coming from users on the buddy list. So, if your PBX is
> >connecting to the Skype network as user 'A', and your remote users are
> >'B' and 'C', then *don't* setup SFA to allow calls from anyone, and
> >don't set it up to automatically add users to the buddy list when they
> >request it. Instead, manually add users B and C to A's buddy list
> (using
> >a regular Skype client), and those are the only users that will be able
> >to call A.
> I know that already, it's a matter of convenience.
> If I go that way, then I have to manually log in to skype, and add maybe
> 50 / 60 users to each new user that I create [these are personal staff
> accounts that wont be logged into the asterisk server via SFA, and are
> not part of the group set up in BCP]
> If there's something I can do on the asterisk end, then management
> becomes *very* simple --> func_odbc+freetds+MS_SQL+PHP = web page to
> manage users & access.

Notice how everything is easy to make work the way you want it to work when 
you have access to the Source Code; the hard bits *invariably* involve some 
piece of proprietary, binary-only software?

There could be a moral in there somewhere .....

-- 
AJS