[Freeswitch-users] sip profile - accept-blind-auth vs

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

in the past I used to set:

<param name="auth-calls" value="false"/>

in the sip profile in order to skip user authentication for calls.

Lately I started to play a bit with 1.2 stable branch and seems that 
setting auth-calls to false is no longer doing what I expected, calls 
being challenged for user authentication.

Setting instead the accept-blind-auth to false got me what I wanted, like:

     <!-- accept any authentication without actually checking (not a 
good feature for most people) -->
     <param name="accept-blind-auth" value="true"/>

But from the comment (checked the wiki as well, but has the same text) 
is a bit unclear what is the real purpose for it.

Isn't auth-calls=false supposed to accept calls without user 
authentication anymore?

For this particular case, I play some announcements, like 'user not 
available', and should work also for calls coming from outside. The 
access is restricted by IP address ACL, allowing SIP traffic only from 
my Kamailio instance.

Cheers,
Daniel

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