[hylafax-users] AW: authentication problems

["Lumpp, Wolfgang" <wol@msc-ge.com>]

Hi,

order is important!
Move the root:::.... part to the first line.

Regards
Wolfgang

Jim Miller <mailto:hylafax@millerclan.com> wrote:
> I am failing miserably at setting up an admin password so I can delete
> faxes queued for delivery.  I've found the writeups about faxadduser
> and hosts.hfaxd, and have done things like
> 	faxadduser -a thepassword 'root@millerclan\.com'
> and
> 	faxadduser -a thepassword root
> 
> which put what seem like plausible strings into hosts.hfaxd.  But all
> attempts to use "faxrm -a" on a job ID come back with a rejection of
> the password, even if I'm logged in as root.  For instance:
> 
>> [root@millerclan etc]# faxadduser -a thepassword root
>> [root@millerclan etc]# more hosts.hfaxd
>> localhost
>> 127.0.0.1
>> root:::Ne546hBIhMf1c
>> 
>> [root@millerclan etc]# whoami
>> root
>> 
>> [root@millerclan etc]# faxrm -a 123
>> Password:
>> Admin failed: 530 Password incorrect.
> 
> or, with more detail:
> 
>> [root@millerclan etc]# faxrm -a -h localhost -v 123
>> Trying localhost (127.0.0.1) at port 4559...
>> Connected to localhost.localdomain.
>> 220 millerclan.com server (HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.1.5) ready.
>> -> USER root
>> 230 User root logged in.
>> Password:
>> -> ADMIN XXXX
>> 530 Password incorrect.
>> Admin failed: 530 Password incorrect.
> 
> I'm not trying to do anything fancy involving networked machines; I'll
> be happy if I can just use faxrm when I'm logged into the machine
> that's running hylafax.  Any advice?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> 
> 
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