[asterisk-users] remote Asterisk console

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:05:01AM +0100, Paul Neuwirth wrote:
> Hello group,
> 
> what is the preferred method to connect to asterisk cli over network? I
> need to run asterisk cli commands remotely.

As others have mentioned: the manager interface is normally better for
running over network.

The manager interface also has an action calld 'Command' that runs a CLI
command. In fact, contrib/scripts/astcli uses it to allow providing a
remote console.

Permissions needed for your manager user: For most things just:

write=command

To also be able to originate calls:

write=command,originate

To also be able to restart / reload:

write=command,system

> Sharing the unix socket through NFS, if that's working?

No.

> Or any other approaches, despite using SSH or rlogin, rsh.

SSH: should work, sure. However, it means you ssh to root at the remote
host. Better set a key with 'command' explicitly set in authorized_keys
for this.

Rlogin, rsh: seriously? Anybody still uses those? Not only are they
way less secure than SSH, they are also way less conveninet than any
decent SSH implementation.

Anyway, as mentioned before: you should probably use AMI.

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