Thanks for the ideas Chris; most appreciated. Hugh
On 8/18/05, Chris Coulthurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to use samba for their checking, you COULD use smb.conf to > control which users get in to which folders. You might make > /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default readable by all, and make [username] > entries in smb.conf to add 'admin user' accesses to only their voicemail > directory tree. I know it is doable, but I can't remember all the commands > in samba off-hand to do it. > > Even if this is not EXACTLY the best way to do it, at least it gives you a > couple ideas to manipulate... > > One thing you might think about is using a script to map voicemail > extensions to known samba usernames/groups, and have the script chown the > specific directories to that samba username and group. I don't know what > variables are passed (if any) from Comedian mail, but it doesn't really > matter, since that script could read a list of ALL vm/username mappings each > time voicemail is left, checked, deleted, and make a change to all of the vm > users at the same time. Some would be redundant, but its not exactly eating > up a ton of cpu cycles to chown users. > > Chris Coulthurst > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "hugolivude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" > <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:56 PM > Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Voicemail file permissions > > > Sorry, not following you at all. Perhaps it's a lack of Linux knowledge. > > I understood that Asterisk puts voicemails in > var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/mailbox/###/INBOX. Are you suggesting > that I could configure that to be a network drive on each user's > computer? If so wouldn't that introduce all kinds of complications > like what to do when their computer is off? > > Thanks for taking the time to respond though, most appreciated. > > Howard > > On 8/17/05, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:48:29AM -0400, hugolivude wrote: > > > > > Is there a way around this w/o giving everyone root privileges! > > > > > > > > Do you want to allow every user to delete another user's voicemail? > > > > > > > > If not, how do you sync voicemail users and samba users? > > > > > > I want each user to see, read and write (delete) their own voicemail > > > ONLY (i.e. a user shouldn't be able to listen to someone elses > > > voicemails). I gave each user an account on the Asterisk box and > > > limited their access to their mailbox folder only. > > > > So don't waste your time on saving the voicemail on Asterisk. Save it on > > a specific folder in an imap server on the user's home directory. > > > > If you use a decent mail client, getting notifications for new mails in > > that folders, deleting them, playing them, and whatever should be easy. > > > > On the Asterisk side you only need to keep voicemail config in sync. > > Maybe it would be easier to just forward every mailbox nnn to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and use an aliases file to do the real forwarding. That > > way you keep the emails away from Asterisk's config. > > > > The downside: no message-waiting indicator. > > > > -- > > Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is > > http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best > > ICQ# 16849755 | | friend > > _______________________________________________ > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users