Re: [hylafax-users] Admin access to faxrm

[Tim Rice <tim@multitalents.net>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Lee Howard wrote:

> At 05:20 PM 1/22/01 -0800, post+hylafax@macallister.grass-valley.ca.us wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I am having trouble setting up admin access so that I can delete
> >a fax job when I need to.  If my reading of the docs is correct
> >what I need to do is to add myself to the etc/hosts file, right?
> 
> Um, if you're talking about 4.1beta2, then it's etc/hosts.hfaxd, but yes,
> you need to be added to that list in this format:
> 
> client:uid:passwd:adminwd 
> 
> Read the hosts.hfaxd manpage for details:
> http://www.hylafax.org/man/hosts.hfaxd.html
> 
> >The passwords there need to be encrypted.  I copied the password
> >strings that I found in /etc/shadow on my Redhat 6.2 system and
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You can not use the password strings from /etc/shadow on most linux systems
in the HylaFAX hosts.hfaxd file.
Check the mail archives. There was a small C program posted that genreates
the proper encrypted password strings. 
And I think someone showed how to do it in perl.
      
> >still cannot get admin access.  Be great if someone could tell me
> >what I am doing wrong.
> 
> You're probably not adding the :adminwd.
> 
> Lee.
> 
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Bill
> >
> 

-- 
Tim Rice				Multitalents	(707) 887-1469
tim@multitalents.net




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