Asterisk - permissions and ownership for the socket console
If you need to give asterisk operational permission to a simple user on linux system, first of all you can add it on asterisk group, then you can edit “asterisk.conf” usually on /etc/asterisk/ and give rwx permission to asterisk group like this (add if they don’t exist): [files] astctlpermissions => 770 astctlowner => asterisk astctlgroup => asterisk astctl => /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl Restart asterisk to apply changes. Common error (wrong socket permission): [leo@srv01 ~]$ /usr/sbin/asterisk -r Asterisk 1.4.22-4 RPM by vc-rpms@voipconsulting.nl, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Digium, Inc. and others. Created by Mark Spencer Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' for details. This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details. ========================================================================= Unable to connect to remote asterisk (does /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.ctl exist?) [leo@srv01 ~]$