Re: flexfax: Can't get access to HylaFAX Server

[User um FlexFax zu empfangen! <flexfax@more.inter-soft.de>]

Hi

I had the same problem and found the answer in the FlexFax archives (sorry
no address available off-hand). The user fax must have the same ID as
uucp.
My /etc/passwd:

uucp:x:10:14::/var/lib/uucp/taylor_config:/bin/bash
fax:x:10:14:Facsimile Agent:/var/spool/fax:/bin/bash
*****
morannon:/var/spool/fax/etc # ls -ln
-rw-------   1 10       14             27 May 26 22:23 hosts


Hope this works - it did for me and I spent a few days solving the
problem... 


Barry



On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Brian DuChien wrote:

> I am running HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.0pl2 under S.U.S.E Linux 5.1 with
> gcc 2.7.2.1 using a USRobotics 56K modem. I installed the rpm version
> available from S.U.S.E

> When I try to run sendfax, faxstat, etc, I get "Login failed: 530 User
> root access denied." I get the same message with any other username.

 
> I have made sure that the etc/hosts file is owned by fax. See below:
>         -rw-------   1 fax      uucp           54 Jun 15 09:39 hosts