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

[Jiri Kuthan]

At 05:34 PM 8/30/2004, 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? 

no, see http://www.iptel.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=124

-jiri

>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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