With the advent of the Asterisk GUI, the Asterisk developers found
it would be helpful to create a configuration file where user accounts can
be specified, instead of having different pieces spread across a myriad of
files (such as extensions.conf
,
sip.conf
, and voicemail.conf
. This file is also updated by
the Asterisk GUI when new users are added to the system or when user
settings are modified.