Re: flexfax: Hylafax - fax user defined in passwd

[Eddie Reed <eddie@eddiereed.com>]

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Nico Garcia wrote:

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> On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Eddie Reed wrote:
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> > In the process of getting Hylafax running, I get the following error in
> > the daily run output:
> > 
> > "Checking the /etc/master.passwd file:
> >  Login fax is off but still has a valid shell."
> > 
> > 
> > "/etc/master.passwd has duplicate user id's.
> > fax 6	uucp 6"
> > 
> > I changed the following user ID to #8 in the /etc/master.passwd file.
> 
> Bad Linux Admin! No biscuit! For various reasons, uucp and fax really
> need to share the same user ID. This has been the subject of much
> discussion lately, but it boils down to "making them different will
> screw up handing the modem from one program to the other, and will
> be much, much too hard to do otherwise."
> 
> > I changed the ownership of the home directory from user uucp to user fax
> > 
> > Now I can finally issue the command sendfx without getting prompted by a
> > password, but nothing happens.  The command faxstat is not returning any
> > output.
> 
> Simply put, you killed it. (No blame, just letting you know.) Change
> this back to the same UID as uucp.
> 
> 			Nico Garcia
> 			Engineer, CIRL 
> 			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
> 			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu
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Yup, I darn killed it. And then erased all configuration files created
during install, then reinstalled hylafax from the distribution.
Ran faxsetup, ran faxmodem, back to abnormal:

Can't use sendfax from command prompt without a password.

The strange thing is that I had this working with the very first install!!
What threw me off is that snnp takes the same port as stronghold.  So I
reinstalled hylafax without the snnp and moved stronghold to another port.

When I look at the dir with the faxes that went out previously, they
report as being sent as "nobody@myhostname.com".  Which tells me there is
some kind of permissions problem here with some of the dirs and files
owned by "fax".

REgards
Eddie