[asterisk-users] AMI Permissions, "all" means different things?

[Johan Wilfer]

2012-09-07 16:13, David M. Lee skrev:
> On Sep 7, 2012, at 1:49 AM, Johan Wilfer wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm trying to limit the permissions for a AMI-account. But I'm a little bit confused by the permissions. The commands I use are (output from "manager show commands", btw: privilege col seems cropped?):
>
> Yes, sadly it is.
>
>>   Action           Privilege        Synopsis
>>   Redirect         call,all         Redirect (transfer) a call.
>>   Originate        originate,all    Originate a call.
>>   Getvar           call,reporting,  Gets a channel variable.
>>
>>
>> If I put this in my manager.conf:
>>
>> [pbx_ami]
>> secret = ***
>> deny=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
>> permit = x.x.x.x/255.255.255.255
>> write=originate,call
>> read=
>>
>>
>> I get this ("manager show user pbx_ami"):
>>
>>        username: pbx_ami
>>          secret: <Set>
>>             acl: yes
>>       read perm: <none>
>>      write perm: call,originate,all
>> displayconnects: yes
>>
>> Where does the "all" permission come from?
>
> Probably just a bug in the 'manager show user' command. The user doesn't have all the permissions, so 'all' shouldn't show up in the list. If it's not already in the issue tracker, please file a bug[1].
>
>   [1]: https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Issue+Guidelines
>
>> However, If I change the row in manager.conf to "write=originate,call,all" the output is:
>>
>>        username: pbx_ami
>>          secret: <Set>
>>             acl: yes
>>       read perm: <none>
>>      write perm: system,call,log,verbose,command,agent,user,config,dtmf,reporting,cdr,dialplan,originate,agi,cc,aoc,test,all
>> displayconnects: yes
>>
>> Can someone explain this please?
>
> This is at least looks correct. The 'all' permission is a superset of, well, all the permissions. The 'write=all' line in manager.conf assigns all of these permissions to the user.
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Johan Wilfer
>

Thank you David for the feedback.

I reported the following bugs:

https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20397 (all bug)
https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-20396 (cropped col)


-- 
Johan Wilfer