Re: flexfax: Administrator Privelege and RedHat 5.1

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

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On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Keith Gray wrote:

> Firstly, it is no possible (under RH5.1) to just copy a /etc/passwd
> accross to the /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts.
> 
> This is probably becaues RH5.1 is using PAM not DES for password
> encryption.
> 
> Tony's c program to generate DES passwords works fine when compiled with
> the crypt library.
> (cc -lcrypt password.c -o password)

Good! As an occasional RedHat user, it's nice to know the workaround.

> The man for hosts is (5F) under RH not (4F) and is fairly good : - the
> point to note is the first acceptable entry match trick...

Sigh. This sort of issue is partly why I wrote patches to move this 
to "hosts.fax", and why the HTML pages need the entries either corrected
per operating system (a very real chore!) or to have the suffixes pulled
in almost all cases (which is what I wrote in the HTML patches).

Good man, Keith. Nice to see the workarounds get developed so quickly.

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

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