asterisk users - Sep 2004 - MOH/mpg123 broken when running asterisk as non-root?

Hi guys,

For the first time, I'm attempting to run asterisk as a non-root user 
for all of the obvious reasons.

I'm attempting this with asterisk-1.0-RC2, based on the fairly 
straightforward directions found here:

	http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+non-root

The only problem I can't get figured out is my mpg123 processes not 
being spawned properly.  There's this note on the page from May:

   http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+non-root#comments

from someone else who felt my pain, and I've even gone in and hacked 
around in res/res_musiconhold.c a bit to try to see if explicitly 
forking mpg123 as a process owned by my non-root user would help.  It 
doesn't seem to.

Has anyone else succesfully fixed this issue?  (And yes, I've done the 
standard googling and archive searching on this issue).

Thanks,

jl

Can non-root users play mp3's with mpeg123 ? It may be a permission
problem with your audio device files.

Thank you,
Steve Maroney

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, john lawler wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> For the first time, I'm attempting to run asterisk as a non-root user
> for all of the obvious reasons.
>
> I'm attempting this with asterisk-1.0-RC2, based on the fairly
> straightforward directions found here:
>
> 	http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+non-root
>
> The only problem I can't get figured out is my mpg123 processes not
> being spawned properly.  There's this note on the page from May:
>
>    http://voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+non-root#comments
>
> from someone else who felt my pain, and I've even gone in and hacked
> around in res/res_musiconhold.c a bit to try to see if explicitly
> forking mpg123 as a process owned by my non-root user would help.  It
> doesn't seem to.
>
> Has anyone else succesfully fixed this issue?  (And yes, I've done the
> standard googling and archive searching on this issue).
>
> Thanks,
>
> jl
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