Re: flexfax: "cannot open user access file /etc/hosts"

[Damian Ivereigh <damian@cisco.com>]

I think that fax & uucp have to have the same uid & gid.

Damian

Schütz Susanne Dipl.Ing. wrote:
> 
> I´m using SUSE Linux 5.1 and the HylaFAX suite coming with it.
> 
> I installed the hylafax package, ran faxsetup and faxaddmodem.
> 
> Then, if I calles faxstat, the reply was:
> 
> Login failed: 550 Cannot set privileges.
> 
> The owner of the file /etc/hosts in /var/spool/fax was uucp, so I
> changed it to fax. The mode of the file is 600. Now I get the message
> 
> Login failed: 530 User root access denied.
> 
> In /var/spool/messages there appear the lines:
> 
> Unable to open the user access file /etc/hosts: Permission denied
> HylaFAX LOGIN REFUSED (user denied) FROM localhost [127.0.0.1], root
> 
> If I try to set the mode of /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts to 666, then the
> server refuses, because the mode isn´t 600. SO I think, the server
> uses the right file.  I didn´t change anything in the config-files.
> 
> Can anyone help me?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> mit freundlichen Grüßen
> 
> Dipl.Ing. Susanne Schütz
> Leiter EDV
> Schenker & Co AG Wien

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