Re: [hylafax-users] Login failed: 550 Cannot set privileges

[alan <alan@pair.com>]

I've had success running hfaxd as a daemon as user root on FreeBSD.
Others have experienced the 550 error when running hfaxd as user fax.

If there's any good reason Not to run hfaxd as root, I'd love to know
about it now instead of after I'm owned...

Alan

On Wed, 2 May 2001, David Banning wrote:

> Login failed: 550 Cannot set privileges
> 
> I just installed hylafax on FreeBSD 4.3 Stable
> and I get the above message.
> 
> I read the reccomendations about having entries in inetd.conf;
> 
> hylafax stream  tcp     nowait  fax     /usr/local/sbin/hfaxd   hfaxd -I
> 
> and in /etc/ttys;
> 
> cuaa1   "/usr/local/sbin/faxgetty"      dialup  on  secure
> 
> which seems to make no difference.
> 
> The /var/log/messages reads;
> 
> May  2 01:46:54 d HylaFAX[603]: getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket
> May  2 02:30:00 d HylaFAX[9455]: Could not create dev/null: Operation not permit
> ted
> 
> May  2 10:40:33 d /usr/local/sbin/faxquit[12159]: FIFO.cuaa1: open: Device not c
> onfigured
> May  2 10:45:32 d HylaFAX[12182]: getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket
> 
> My /dev/null is there;
> 
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    2,   2 May  2 11:11 /dev/null
> 
> 
> and seems to work when I;
> 
> echo hithere > /dev/null
> 
> I'm uninstalled and reinstalled hylafax with no change.
> 
> There are no errors during the install, and I have both
> faxq and faxgetty running;
> 
> ps ax | grep fax
> 
> 12171  ??  I      0:00.35 /usr/local/sbin/faxgetty cuaa1
> 12173  ??  Is     0:00.03 /usr/local/sbin/faxq
> 
> Any idea where I go from here?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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