Re: flexfax: Permission denied on hosts-file

[Yuri van Oers <yvanoers@stack.nl>]

> > The /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts file has permissions set to 600, user is fax,
> > group is uucp.
> > hfaxd is user root and is run as user uucp.
> 
> fax and uucp should be aliases of each other (same internal user ID number).
> Looks like you have them distinct.
> 
I looked it up:
user fax = UID 33
user uucp= UID 10
group uucp=GID 14

What's the problem if users fax and uucp have different UIDs?

Yuri