Re: flexfax: faxsetup on Linux (bug in moduser?)

[Carsten Hoeger <choeger@suse.de>]

On Sun, 9 Nov 1997 Matthias.Apitz@SOFTCON.de wrote:

> I'm checking the faxsetup(1M) on Linux (to detect any problems
> and see if it works reliable). For some unknown reason my Linux
> box (S.u.S.E.) is shipped with a user "fax" in /etc/passwd and

The reason is, in my opinion the package mgetty+sendfax from Gert Doering.
This package needs this user, too.

> HylaFAX's faxsetup(1M) wants to modify this ("fax" must have
> the same uid as "uucp"). But it seems that there is a bug

By this reason, I made some very raw changes in the faxsetup-script from
HylaFAX, that comes with S.u.S.E. Linux 5.0.0#2 and higher. After these
changes, the question to modify /etc/passwd disappears -that's not a very
good solution, but I had to find a quick solution-.

Another point is, that the uid of uucp and fax has to be the same. That's
not a very good solution. We changed this and put uucp and fax in the same
group. That works...

> in the usermod(1M) command. It complains about the existing
> (new) HOME of "fax" with exit code 12 but the change is done
> in the /etc/passwd file. A workaround could be running the command
> twice 'cuze it exits with 0 for the 2nd change which has
> nothing to do anymore. Any comments from the Linux gurus?

...see above...
 
> # uname -a
> Linux map 2.0.30 #9 Wed Nov 5 18:41:26 MET 1997 i586 unknown
> # grep fax /etc/passwd
> fax:x:23:14:Facsimile Agent:/var/spool/fax:/bin/bash
> # usermod -d /usr/local/lib/HylaFAX/spool -m -u 10 -o -g 14 fax
> usermod: directory /usr/local/lib/HylaFAX/spool exists
> # echo $?
> 12
> # grep fax /etc/passwd
> fax:x:10:14:Facsimile Agent:/usr/local/lib/HylaFAX/spool:/bin/bash
> # 
> # usermod -d /usr/local/lib/HylaFAX/spool -m -u 10 -o -g 14 fax
> # echo $?
> 0
> #
> 
> BTW: The usermod(1M) wants the flag "-m" after the "-d home"
> while the original faxsetup script in pl1 has the "-m" as the
> first parameter. This can easy be fixed in the script faxsetup.linux
> (or should be fixed in faxsetup at all).

I'm very pleased about this, but why uid(uucp) == uid(fax)?

> All other things in faxsetup(1M) work without any kind of problems.
> The faxq(1M) is up and the hfaxd(1M) starts on connects via
> the inetd(1M):
> 
> thias:/home/guru $ FAXSERVER=map:4559 export FAXSERVER
> thias:/home/guru $ faxstat -v
> HylaFAX scheduler on map.muc.de: Running
> Trying map (222.222.222.223) at port 4559...
> Connected to map.
> 220 map.muc.de server (HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.0pl2beta) ready.
> -> USER guru
> 230 User guru logged in.
> -> PORT 222,222,222,222,5,152
> 200 PORT command successful.
> -> LIST status
> 150 Opening new data connection for "status".
> 226 Transfer complete.
> thias:/home/guru $ 

mfG,
	Carsten Hoeger
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