Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: asterisk - The Open Source PBX https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178922 ------- Additional Comments From matthias@xxxxxxxxxxxx 2007-05-17 03:50 EST ------- What about this point from comment #17? > - Asterisk shouldn't run as root by default IMHO. If it's a QoS related > decision, it should be up to the user/admin to switch to using root. I've checked the 1.4.4 packages, and asterisk still defaults to running as root. While looking at this, I also noticed that the init script includes a commented out configuration section even though it supports setting all the options by creating an /etc/sysconfig/asterisk file. Since no configuration changes should be made inside the init script itself (this is now a policy), I'd suggest : - Installing a default /etc/sysconfig/asterisk file - Moving the "configuration" section from the init script to that file Also, unless it's absolutely impossible to run asterisk as non-root (which I doubt, since all my installs run as the asterisk user), I'd suggest having the /etc/sysconfig/asterisk file default to switching to the asterisk user and group, with a comment saying that by commenting out the entries, asterisk would run as root, that it might be useful in some setups, but that it also involves a higher risk. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review