[Serusers] Can SER digest-authenticate itself to PSTN servers when forwarding requests from clients?

[Jan Janak]

No, SER cannot respond to digest challenge, asterisk,
http://www.asterisk.org can do that.

  Jan.

On 30-08 17:34, Andreas Greulich wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to SER, so maybe the question is trivial. What I'm wondering if there's
> a way SER can itself (!) authenticate using digest authentication on a PSTN
> gateway? Obviously I can't use "rewriteuserpass" because this doesn't support
> digest authentication.
> 
> Background: I'm using a hardware SIPphone (BT100) that can only connect to one
> single SIP server. I'd like to make it connect to SER running on my Linux box.
> SER would not need to authenticate the phone itself (it's my private LAN segment
> anyway). SER should register itself (not the phone) as a UA to several SIP
> servers in the Internet on behalf of the BT100 (like Stanaphone, Sipgate,
> Nikotel, etc). To do so, my credentials for these servers are placed on the
> Linux box (in cleartext). Of course these servers require digest authentication,
> jence my initial question. As soon as I make a call on teh BT100, SER can use a
> dialing plan in order to decide what PSTN to connect it to - but this should be
> invisible to the BT100, the SER proxy should even take care itself of the digest
> authentication.
> 
> I browsed the auth module - but I can only find actions in there that would
> allow the proxy to digest-authenticate incoming requests - or did I miss
> something? I don't really feel like installing a MySQL server either (for my 2-3
> accounts), unless really needed. What I need though is a way how the proxy could
> itself - independent of the calling client - authenticate on different servers
> (using different credentials at each server). Is this possible using SER? Or
> maybe some other software?
> 
> Thanks, Andy
> 
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