[hylafax-users] Re: faxrm restricts root

[Lee Howard <faxguy@server.deanox.com>]

Thanks, Albert, I didn't know about administrative accounts.  I can always
su from root to the user who submitted the fax and then faxrm it, which
isn't a problem.  However, I really wanted to know why.  I guess, though,
that I was unclear.

Why would we ever want to restrict root from administrative HylaFAX
priviledges?  Especially when root can simply su to become any user anyway?
 (It's just making it troublesome for root, that's all.)

Thanks.
Lee Howard


At 05:02 PM 6/25/00 -0400, Albert Lee wrote:
>take a look at "man 5F hosts" or "man 5F hosts.hfaxd"
>about setting up an account with administrative privileges.
>
>Lee Howard wrote:
>> 
>> faxrm only functions for the user that submitted the fax, it even prohibits
>> root from removing faxes that root did not submit.  Is this intentional?
>> 
>> Lee Howard
>



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