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At 04:58 PM 1/13/01 +0100, Richard Lippmann wrote: >First: shame on the programmers who are not willing to provide a simple interface to administrate faxjobs for _all_ users by submitting a password like this: > >whoever$ faxrm --masterpass=gogogo --jobid=137 Not trying to say that this is a bad idea, but how is this any easier than: $ su -c "faxrm 137" faxinguser Also, you can create an administrator account which has these permissions without using something like --masterpass. See 'man hosts.hfaxd'. (But, I think you knew that.) But as for knocking the dedicated and loyal HylaFAX programmers - who, mind you, work paying jobs for a living - remember that this is open-source. Feel free to change the code if you don't like it - if you can't code, then pay someone to do it for you. >Such a lot of people are not able to automate this because of this password asking after >submitting a faxrm -a 137 And, as it appears that you do, if you'd like to avoid the "Password:" prompt, then the idea is to simply log-in as the uid as the person whose fax you want to remove. An administrative user, say root, should easily be able to learn the user's fax password. Creative implementations of etc/hosts.hfaxd will make this easier, too. Again, this is not to say that --masterpass is a bad idea... maybe just unnecessary. >I am sorry, I am not able to program in C so it's not possible to path the problem. > >Second: you CAN automate it with an ftp-like approach I tell you now. ...<snip>... My only question here would be why is telnet so hard to do? Or rather, how is a web-interface any easier than telnet? Lee. ____________________ HylaFAX(tm) Users Mailing List _______________________ To unsub: mail -s unsubscribe hylafax-users-request@hylafax.org < /dev/null