Re: [hylafax-users] Does hylafax work on Fedora Core 2?

["Paul A. Franz" <paulfranz@xxxxxxxxx>]

HylaFAX works fine and dandy for me on FC2.

I solved the user/password problem by first reading the man page for
hosts.hfaxd.

Not knowing how to create encrypted passwords for the above file, I guessed
maybe it might work using the encrypted password created when one creates a
new user for the system. They are no longer in /etc/passwd but rather in
/etc/shadow.

Follow the instructions for creating a username in the man page for
hosts.hfaxd but here is a part of etc/hosts.hfaxd that I use which works if
the user logs in with either his username or his whole e-mail address.

[root@Beaker etc]# less hosts.hfaxd
localhost
127.0.0.1
#PAF entries are in the form client:UID:passwd
#PAF UID is from /etc/passwd, passwd is taken from /etc/shadow
paul:500:$1$Yh4dtmmmungedkP.ajYS.GR1
elias:520:$1$4BLzKO4mungedNV068tn2/3rr.

The encrypted password is taken from the second field in /etc/shadow.

This works fine and dandy for me for logging in. WHFC won't complete any job
for me because the job gets NAK's by the server immediately after
submission. Haven't been able to solve that problem though.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:hylafax-users-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Doris
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 7:44 PM
> To: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [hylafax-users] Does hylafax work on Fedora Core 2?
> 
> I've spent all day trying to figure out how to log into hylafax that's
> running on Fedora Core 2.  Hylafax can receive faxes just fine and sends
> them to the FaxMaster.
> 
> I can telnet to localhost port 4559 and run the stat command.  However, I
> can't login using the user command.  I'm always asked for a password and
> then the login fails.
> 
> It actually says user gerry logged in and then connection closed by
> foreign host.
> 
> I've run the faxadduser command to add user gerry.  I can delete user
> gerry using faxdeluser.  I have hosts.hfaxd owned by uucp.uucp and with
> permissions 600.  hosts.faxd contains just one line containing gerry.
> I'm trying to telnet from the same server that's running hylafax.
> 
> I tried faxadduser -a "password" gerry where password is root's password.
> The hosts.hfaxd file contained one line with gerry:::"encrypted stuff"
> where I assume the encrypted stuff is the encrypted password.  However, I
> still can't login!
> 
> I've even uninstalled hylafax and re-installed it again.  Still no go!
> I'm using the rpm post on the hylafax website for Fedora.
> 
> I'm starting to wonder if hylafax actually runs properly on Fedora Core
> 2???
> 
> --
> Gerry
> 
> "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer
> 
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