Re: [hylafax-users] Authentication problems

[Kilian Schlaich <kcs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Patrick,

I use entries for machines (not for users) like this:
localhost:66
127.0.0.1:66
192.168.10.123:66

The 66 is not a real user, but the user fax (and uucp)
which is used by hylafax.

With that entries anybody on the listed machines may use hylafax
without any password.

Kilian

Patrick wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I'm a new user to HylaFax , and I must say I'm very happy to be able
> to use this magnificent software.
> I am having some trouble setting it up tho, in regards to user
> authentication.
>  From what I've understood, most of the operations require a user
> login, based upon the file hosts.hfaxd .
> So what I have done is install HylaFax with the Debian packages and
> it seems to run fine.
> The problem is when I try to authenticate, I just can't.
> I created a user with the "faxadduser" script named "knoppix" (as
> that is the account I try to use for faxing operations).
> 
> knoppix@0[etc]$ whoami
> knoppix
> 
> knoppix@0[etc]$ cat hosts.hfaxd
> 127.0.0.1  (line added by hand to test, still asks for [and refuses]
> password)
> ^knoppix@::bWrjtorRVPWqc
> 
> knoppix@0[etc]$ sendfax -n -d 1234 test.ps
> Password:
> Login failed: 530 Login incorrect.
> 
> As you can see I'm using Knoppix, running HylaFax 4.2.1 (latest
> Debian package, if I recall correctly, I will double-check tomorrow,
> can't now).
> I tried creating every kind of account with "faxadduser" (root,
> 127.0.0.1,etc) but none of them seem to work, it still always asks
> for a password.
> Am I missing something here?
> Any kind of help is greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Patrick

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