[asterisk-users] asterisk as non root

[Antony Stone]

On Wednesday 19 April 2017 at 18:48:29, Atux Atux wrote:

> Hi.
> Here is the output of the command
> 
> root at pbx: ~ $  find / -name asterisk -exec ls -ld '{}' \;
>
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 19 17:32 /usr/include/asterisk
>
> drwxr-x--- 3 asterisk asterisk 4096 Apr 19 17:32 /usr/lib/asterisk
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9719880 Apr 19 17:27 /usr/src/asterisk-11.25.1/main/asterisk
>
> drwxrwxr-x 3 1013 users 4096 Apr 19 16:56 /usr/src/asterisk-11.25.1/include/asterisk
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9719880 Apr 19 17:32 /usr/sbin/asterisk

Okay, those look reasonable to me - however I'm surprised at some which are missing:

	/var/log/asterisk
	/var/spool/asterisk
	/var/run/asterisk

Did you *stop* Asterisk before trying to change it to run as non-root?

I think Tzafrir Cohen's comments are very well worth following.


Antony.

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