[asterisk-users] asterisk as non root

[Atux Atux]

the output of ls -l is
root at pbx: ~ $ ls -l /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl
srwxr-xr-x 1 asterisk asterisk 0 Apr 20 19:47 /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl
root at pbx: ~ $


On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Antony Stone <
Antony.Stone at asterisk.open.source.it> wrote:

> On Thursday 20 April 2017 at 18:31:03, Atux Atux wrote:
>
> > root at PBX: /var/www/html $ /etc/init.d/asterisk start
> > [ ok ] Starting asterisk (via systemctl): asterisk.service.
>
> I'm somewhat puzzled that your root-user prompt is "$"
> instead of the more normal "#", but never mind...
>
> > root at PBX: /var/www/html $ ps aux | grep asterisk
> > asterisk  1007  0.7  2.3  67128 23748 ?        Ssl  Apr19   8:49
> /usr/sbin/asterisk -U asterisk -G asterisk
>
> So, the first column of that output shows you that asterisk is
> running as the user "asterisk".
>
> On my Debian system I only have "-U asterisk" without the "-G asterisk".
>
> > root      4186  0.0  0.1   4192  1992 pts/0    S+   17:30   0:00 grep
> asterisk
>
> ...and the grep command was run by "root"
>
> > root at PBX: /var/www/html $ /usr/sbin/asterisk –rx "sip show peers"
> > Privilege escalation protection disabled!
> > See https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/x/1gKfAQ for more details.
> > Asterisk already running on /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl.  Use
> 'asterisk
> > -r' to connect.
>
> Who does "ls -l" show you that file /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl
> is owned by?
>
> On my machine it's:
>
> srwxrwx--- 1 asterisk asterisk 0 Apr 11 10:32
> /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl
>
>
> Antony.
>
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