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

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, [ISO-8859-1] Schütz Susanne Dipl.Ing. wrote:

> I installed the hylafax package, ran faxsetup and faxaddmodem.

I hope this was a recent 4.0pl2 package?

> 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

uucp should be the same UID as fax. If it's not, something else is
going on.

> 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.

600 is correct. Check the contents of the file.

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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