Re: flexfax: faxsetup on Linux (bug in moduser?)

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Carsten Hoeger wrote:

> Another point is, that the uid of uucp and fax has to be the same. That's
> not a very good solution. We changed this and put uucp and fax in the same
> group. That works...

Ummm. This is not ideal. Dial-up lines and lock files are normally
owned by the calling process, UUCP or HylaFAX. Using the same group
for the uucp/fax users should only work if the lock files are left
with group write permission, and the serial lines left owned by that
user. I'd want to think about that before doing it.

It also involves mucking with the group files as well as the passwd
file...

> > BTW: The usermod(1M) wants the flag "-m" after the "-d home"
> > while the original faxsetup script in pl1 has the "-m" as the
> > first parameter. This can easy be fixed in the script faxsetup.linux
> > (or should be fixed in faxsetup at all).
> 
> I'm very pleased about this, but why uid(uucp) == uid(fax)?

See above.

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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