Bug#463983: asterisk doesn't behave the same when in debug mode

[Arthur Lutz]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:06:36AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:26:12AM +0100, Arthur Lutz wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:33:18PM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> > > root wrote:
> > >> To get my asterisk to work I have to launch it through the command 
> > >> line: 
> > >>
> > >> asterisk -vvvvvvvc
> > >>
> > >> Otherwise, through /etc/init.d/asterisk start It doesn't behave in the
> > >> same way (most operations get a "603 Declined" response). 
> 
> What operations, exactly? "603"? Where exactly do you see such a
> message?
> 

I was getting it on my Twinkle phone.

> > > Probably because that way asterisk runs as root, while the init script  
> > > calls asterisk -U asterisk (run as the asterisk user).
> > >
> > > You probably have some configuration files owned by root and with no  
> > > permissions.
> > >
> > 
> > All the files in /etc/asterisk/ are owned by asterisk. Asterisk is
> > running. If I connect to the console with "asterisk -r" and try to make
> > a phone call, I get : 
> 
> Is this from asterisk running as root?

Indeed, I hadn't realised. 

> Please avoid doing that. It is a bad security practice. 
> 
> If you really need to run Asterisk "interactively" to debug its startup,
> use:
> 
>   /etc/init.d/asterisk debug
> 
> Or make sure you add '-U asterisk' to the command-line.

got it. Thanks.

> > 
[snip]
> > Can the permission denied come from the php import in dial.php ? 
> 
> ls -ld /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin/ /usr/share/asterisk
> 
> head /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin/dial.php

Got it. The agi-bin was not world readable/executable : 

# ls -ld /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin/ /usr/share/asterisk
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 26 18:13 /usr/share/asterisk
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Feb  5 09:20 /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin/

I then did a 

# chmod a+rx /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin/

And it works. Thanks for helping out. 

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