All example of installing Asterisk shows running it under root user. Why is that? Can it be run under regular non-privileged user account. Dmitry
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Dmitry Mishchenko wrote:> All example of installing Asterisk shows running it under root user. > Why is that? Can it be run under regular non-privileged user account.Sure - with the right permission tweaking. I made a group "telephony". Had to fiddle with permissons and set group to "telephony" for stuff like /etc/asterisk /var/log/asterisk. And in my case /dev/capi20 etc. Steve