asterisk users - Jul 2010 - SKYPE - Authenticate incoming call automatically

Hi All, 

After getting licences for Skype for asterisk a while ago I finally got
around to setting up a server with two channels and setting up a bcp on
the skype end. 

The idea behind this is the following: 

Users can dial into the PBX, get authenticated and only after
authentication get access to internal PBX extensions. 

I CAN do this with a PIN, no sweat, but from a user perspective it
becomes a bit clunky, i.e. password to remember, security in terms of
pin leaks, multiple passwords for users, etc. 

I was wondering if there was a way I could extract the "FROM - USER"
and
assign it to a variable, then do a lookup of that username in a database
using ODBC to decide whether to allow or disallow access. 

NOTE: The bit I need help with is extracting the "FROM - USER" the
rest
of the stuff I've done already / before.  

Thanks, 

Neeraj.

On 07/14/2010 11:29 PM, Neeraj Chand wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi All, 
> 
> After getting licences for Skype for asterisk a while ago I finally got
> around to setting up a server with two channels and setting up a bcp on
> the skype end. 
> 
> The idea behind this is the following: 
> 
> Users can dial into the PBX, get authenticated and only after
> authentication get access to internal PBX extensions. 
> 
> I CAN do this with a PIN, no sweat, but from a user perspective it
> becomes a bit clunky, i.e. password to remember, security in terms of
> pin leaks, multiple passwords for users, etc. 
> 
> I was wondering if there was a way I could extract the "FROM -
USER" and
> assign it to a variable, then do a lookup of that username in a database
> using ODBC to decide whether to allow or disallow access. 
> 
> NOTE: The bit I need help with is extracting the "FROM - USER"
the rest
> of the stuff I've done already / before.  
None of this is necessary; Skype already supports restricting to calls
to only coming from users on the buddy list. So, if your PBX is
connecting to the Skype network as user 'A', and your remote users are
'B' and 'C', then *don't* setup SFA to allow calls from
anyone, and
don't set it up to automatically add users to the buddy list when they
request it. Instead, manually add users B and C to A's buddy list (using
a regular Skype client), and those are the only users that will be able
to call A.

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