adding asterisk to the group dialout

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:19:32AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote:
> Hi Tzafrir,
> 
> > The postinst script of asterisk does not seem to add asterisk to the
> > dialout group. Isn't that group the group for the zaptel devices?
> 
> 
> yes it is. And that's a (known) bug Jose and I had already been talking
> about. =)
> 
> Thanks for bringing it back onto the TODO!

Here's my current idea. I must admit I could not figure out what the 
current lines do. There seem to be some typos. The TODO I've added is
to handle the case of existing Rapid users. It may be less critical for
existing Sid/Sarge users.

--- /home/tzafrir/Proj/Alioth/pkg-voip/asterisk/trunk/debian/postinst   2005-02-19 10:14:20.000000000 +0200
+++ debian/postinst     2005-04-14 01:01:57.795493099 +0300
@@ -18,9 +18,12 @@
                if [ "`getent passwd asterisk|awk -F: '{print $6}'`" = "/var/run/asterisk" ];then
                        usermod -d /var/lib/asterisk asterisk
                fi
+               # TODO: check if not in group dialin and /dev/zap is in 
+               # group dialin and add me to group dialin.
        else
-               adduser --system --group --home /var/lib/asterisk --gecos "Asterisk PBX daemon" asterisk
-               adduser asterisk audio
+               adduser --system --home /var/lib/asterisk \
+                       --gecos "Asterisk PBX daemon" asterisk
+               usermod -G dialin,audio asterisk
        fi
        test -d /var/log/asterisk || mkdir /var/log/asterisk
        test -d /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv || mkdir /var/log/asterisk/cdr-csv

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