| Summary: | ASTERISK-16182: [patch] [branch] unprivileged (non-root) installation of Asterisk | ||
| Reporter: | Paul Belanger (pabelanger) | Labels: | |
| Date Opened: | 2010-06-01 09:05:43 | Date Closed: | 2011-06-07 14:00:40 |
| Priority: | Major | Regression? | No |
| Status: | Closed/Complete | Components: | Core/BuildSystem |
| Versions: | Frequency of Occurrence | ||
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| Environment: | Attachments: | ( 0) non-root.patch.v8 | |
| Description: | There have been many request over the years for Asterisk to be install as a non-root user. The follow patch set enables this. By default, Asterisk will now attempt to install using the 'Asterisk' user id / group id. This means, the user and group MUST already exist, Asterisk will not create them (This may change at a future date). Below are 3 flags to change theses settings. --- 3 new configure options: --with-user=uid --with-group=gid --disable-non-root --- ****** ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ****** Most of the work is already done. We just need testers to verify everything works properly. http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/team/pabelanger/non-root/ | ||
| Comments: | By: Paul Belanger (pabelanger) 2010-06-15 13:03:03 So I don't forget. --- <Corydon76-dig> pabelanger: what does "non-root install" mean to you? <pabelanger> Corydon76-dig: non-privileged user would be term.... for both running Asterisk and Testsuite. <Corydon76-dig> pabelanger: so you're not running any of the flags or features that need privileged capabilities? <Corydon76-dig> i.e. -p or setting TOS bits <pabelanger> Corydon76-dig: at the moment, no. However handling that would need to be considered <Corydon76-dig> Not that we currently test either of those, but if we ever did, then we could not use this for those tests <pabelanger> Corydon76-dig: In fact, it would be a good idea for me to figure out any / all settings in Asterisk that would require privileged capabilities. <Corydon76-dig> pabelanger: I believe those are it, for the moment By: Digium Subversion (svnbot) 2010-07-23 08:26:41 Repository: asterisk Revision: 278873 U trunk/Makefile U trunk/agi/Makefile U trunk/sounds/Makefile ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r278873 | pabelanger | 2010-07-23 08:26:40 -0500 (Fri, 23 Jul 2010) | 17 lines Portability updates for Makefiles. When possible, use $(INSTALL). This allows us to use the functionality within install for setting directory / file permissions, a requirement for unprivileged installation. Also move any directory we plan to create within the installdirs macro. Plus various other formatting issues. (issue ASTERISK-16182) Reported by: pabelanger Patches: non-root.patch.v8 uploaded by pabelanger (license 224) Tested by: pabelanger Review: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/654/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&revision=278873 By: Paul Belanger (pabelanger) 2010-07-23 15:10:58 Suspended | ||