asterisk users - Apr 2007 - Prompt for a PIN number to make long distance call?

I need to authenticate users to make long distance calls.  Basically,when
the user dials a long distance dialplan pattern, I want to prompt for his
pin and look it up against a table of pins:usernames in a file.  If it
exists, I'll use the username in the cdr accountcode and permit the call.
Authenticate() looked very promising nut I couldn't get the ma options to
work.  Any help is appreciated.  Honestly, I'm not even sure how to read an
external file and parse it from asterisk.
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Hi J French,

try with DISA ;p

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cmd+DISA

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If you want a specific CID to show up it seems that your only options are to
A) Write an AGI.
B) If you don't have many users that can dial international you can use a
series of GotoIf statements.
C) You can use the Asterisk DB.

Dovid

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  From: J French 
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  Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 12:13 AM
  Subject: [asterisk-users] Prompt for a PIN number to make long distance call?


  I need to authenticate users to make long distance calls.  Basically,when the
user dials a long distance dialplan pattern, I want to prompt for his pin and
look it up against a table of pins:usernames in a file.  If it exists, I'll
use the username in the cdr accountcode and permit the call.  Authenticate()
looked very promising nut I couldn't get the ma options to work.  Any help
is appreciated.  Honestly, I'm not even sure how to read an external file
and parse it from asterisk.


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You can set up a simple mysql table with PIN-users this makes it more
extensible and you can create a simple web interface to change to pins/add
users.
after you have set up the table just use a simple IVR construct to prompt
for the PIN, fetch it from the table and authenticate it - something like
this (wrote it on my notepad so check the syntax):
exten => _XXXX,1,Noop
exten => _XXXX,2,MYSQL(Connect connid localhost changeme changeme changeme)
exten => _XXXX,3,MYSQL(Query resultid ${connid} SELECT\ pin\ from\
user_pin_table\ where\ pin=${EXTEN})
exten => _XXXX,4,MYSQL(Fetch fetchid ${resultid} pin)
exten => _XXXX,5,Authenticate(${pin})

if the auth is okay, you can fetch the username for that PIN using
Set(CDR(accountcode)=fetched_user)

Joss.


On 4/8/07, J French <hikenboots@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I need to authenticate users to make long distance calls.  Basically,when
> the user dials a long distance dialplan pattern, I want to prompt for his
> pin and look it up against a table of pins:usernames in a file.  If it
> exists, I'll use the username in the cdr accountcode and permit the
call.
> Authenticate() looked very promising nut I couldn't get the ma options
to
> work.  Any help is appreciated.  Honestly, I'm not even sure how to
read an
> external file and parse it from asterisk.
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