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Jerry Geis

2017-Mar-22 00:54 UTC

[asterisk-users] Running asterisk as non-root

I found a page that assisted in running asterisk as non-root.

My question is why is the default install not more friendly in this
manner???

I mean basically the instructions changed the permissions to allow GROUP
write, so 775 instead of 755 and changed the astrun to be a directory

Why doesn't the default install do this? Seems logical to me. I installed
11.25.1

Thanks,

Jerry
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Dovid Bender

2017-Mar-22 00:56 UTC

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dir="ltr">I found a page that assisted in running asterisk as
non-root.<div><br></div><div>My question is why is the
default install not more friendly in this
manner???</div><div><br></div><div>I mean
basically the instructions changed the permissions to allow GROUP write, so 775
instead of 755 and changed the astrun to be a directory
</div><div><br></div><div>Why doesn't the
default install do this? Seems logical to me. I installed
11.25.1</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Jerry</div></div>
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Tzafrir Cohen

2017-Mar-22 08:30 UTC

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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 08:54:22PM -0400, Jerry Geis
wrote:> I found a page that assisted in running asterisk as non-root.
> 
> My question is why is the default install not more friendly in this
> manner???
It requires either creating a user or making sure such a user exists.
That's not a firendly thing to do in a typical 'make install'.

It is quite the expected thing on just about any packaging of Asterisk,
because there are relatively standard methods of creating users in the
context of a specific distribution.
> 
> I mean basically the instructions changed the permissions to allow GROUP
> write, so 775 instead of 755 and changed the astrun to be a directory
That assumes USER or GROUP exists.
> 
> Why doesn't the default install do this? Seems logical to me. I
installed
> 11.25.1
If you're still not convinved, Patches are welcomed (for the master branch).

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