Re: [hylafax-users] GID received fax

[Tim Rice <tim@multitalents.net>]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Giulio Orsero wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:56:19 +0200, you wrote:
> 
> >> >What determines the GID of a received fax?
> >> >I noticed this is the same as uid which maps to the group wheel on my 
> >> 
> >> I think this is a bug, see:
> >> http://bugs.hylafax.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60
> >
> >uid can be set via hosts.hfaxd, so think this is not a bug it is a 
> >feature ;-)
> 
> But the gid is "random"; why should HylaFAX use for the gid the same number of
> the uid? I think it should use the primary gid of the chosen uid.
> 

Remember, HylaFAX is a fax server. You can set up users in HylaFAX that
may or may not have any relationship to users on the Operating System
that HylaFAX is running on. So it makes sense to use the GID to represent
different users. What you are seeing is by design, not a bug.

> 

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




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