Re: [hylafax-users] faxrm permission problem

[Lee Howard <faxguy@deanox.com>]

At 02:36 AM 11/30/00 -0500, David Banning wrote:
>I have been trying to delete a fax that was executed from
>within netscape.
>
>The owner of the fax is "nobody"
>
>I can't login as "nobody";
>bash-2.03$ su - nobody
>Password:
>Sorry
>bash-2.03$ 
>
>in the master.passwd file "nobody" has no password
>
>I can't use faxrm because I'm not "nobody"

See 'man config' and look under "LogFileMode" and "RecvFileMode"
http://www.hylafax.org/man/config.php

>I can't use "faxrm -a" either as it asks for a admin password that I
>don't have. I have been looking through the hylafax
>mailing lists and found several people who have had the same
>problem - but I could not find any answers that they might have
>received.
>
>I understand that I can become admin my setting up hosts.
>Is that /etc/hosts or /var/spool/fax/etc/hosts ?
>How do I set that up?
>There was one reference to finding the man page for hosts 
>like "man 5F hosts" but I don't have that one.
>
>Any one know the answer?

It's now 'man hosts.hfaxd'.
http://www.hylafax.org/man/hosts.hfaxd.php

Lee.




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