Re: flexfax: Accessing received faxes

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

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On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Philip Juels wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently running faxgetty on a RH5.1 box.  When faxes are recieved,
> they are stored in /recvd with owner:group of uucp:wheel so only root can
> access the fax files.  How do I get faxgetty to save the faxes with
> different owner:group?

Changing *permissions* would be enough. Altering the default 0600
to, say, 0664 with the UUCP group including people with permission
to delete the stuff would serve. This is available in the config.modem
file.

> I understand there are many using web servers to provide access to their
> received faxes.  I've set up Apache web server so that users
> can see the list of faxes in /recvd, but we get "forbidden messages" when
> trying to access a faxfile (presumably from the above owner:group
> situation). How do I get around this?

0644 permissions on the files will do this. The Apache typically server runs
file access as user "nobody", for security reason.

> And is it really necessary to run a cgi script just to access
> faxfiles from a web browser?  Can't one just allow users to get those
> files as they would via ftp through the browser?

Yes, or to provide SMB or NFS access to the directory. The web tool
is useful for systems that don't have this level of access and to
have a published access control or password system.


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

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