[Freeswitch-docs] Freeswitch binary user and group

[Sergey Safarov]

I my instalation FS runs as non privileged user without problems. Think
root privileges recommendadion is specific for you.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015, 18:01 Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com> wrote:

> Choosing the daemon group made sense to me, but if others know a better
> group by all means change it.
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> I discovered that FS must be started as root, then it quickly drops
> privileges. As to file owner and group, I’m not so sure.
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> It’s probably best to carry out this discussion on the FS-docs mailing
> list where others can see it.
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> Bote
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> *From:* Niek Vlessert [mailto:niekvlessert at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, 01 October, 2015 07:01
> *To:* Bote Man
> *Subject:* Freeswitch user and group
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> Hello Bote,
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> On the Freeswitch Confluence you are the one who changed the 1.6
> installation page adding this:
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> Because you most likely built FreeSWITCH™ as root you must now create the
> user 'freeswitch' in group 'daemon' and change the FS files to owner =
> freeswitch and group = daemon (to allow system services to interact with
> FS) and set the file mode appropriately
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> I'm building some things to make it easier for people to get Freeswitch
> running after make install (Jira FS-7910 if you're interested). Now there
> is some discussion if the daemon group is the correct one or the freeswitch
> group. Could you shed some light on 'allow system services to interact with
> FS'?
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> Thanks in advance, regards,
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> Niek
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