<p dir="ltr">I my instalation FS runs as non privileged user without problems. Think root privileges recommendadion is specific for you.<br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Oct 1, 2015, 18:01 Bote Man <<a href="mailto:bote_radio@botecomm.com">bote_radio@botecomm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Choosing the daemon group made sense to me, but if others know a better group by all means change it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">It’s probably best to carry out this discussion on the FS-docs mailing list where others can see it.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Bote<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Niek Vlessert [mailto:<a href="mailto:niekvlessert@gmail.com" target="_blank">niekvlessert@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 01 October, 2015 07:01<br><b>To:</b> Bote Man<br><b>Subject:</b> Freeswitch user and group<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello Bote,<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On the Freeswitch Confluence you are the one who changed the 1.6 installation page adding this:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">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</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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'?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance, regards,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Niek<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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