flexfax: Administrator Privelege and RedHat 5.1

[Keith Gray <kapgray@ocean.com.au>]

Thanks to David Woolley (UK) and Tony Chen (NZ) for their patience...

I have a solution to the ADMIN password issue.

Firstly, it is no possible (under RH5.1) to just copy a /etc/passwd
accross to the /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts.

This is probably becaues RH5.1 is using PAM not DES for password
encryption.

Tony's c program to generate DES passwords works fine when compiled with
the crypt library.
(cc -lcrypt password.c -o password)

The man for hosts is (5F) under RH not (4F) and is fairly good : - the
point to note is the first acceptable entry match trick...

ie. put your "<username>:0::<encrypted password>" entry first




I hope this helps Damian (Cisco) and others...
all credit to David and Tony,


Keith

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