Re: [hylafax-users] an old issue FAXRM

[Fernando <fernando.alhambra@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Aidan,

You were right, that was my hosts.hfaxd:
localhost
127.0.0.1
10.2.84.*
^root@::tg7.gHr.L3sKQ:5GHfSf812wXaY

so never reach the root user directly.
But now that I've put the ^root line the first, even with the command
faxstat, it ask me for the password.

Maybe without password to avoid that?

Thanks a lot.

FAP

2007/6/13, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxx>:
> * Fernando <fernando.alhambra@xxxxxxxxx> [070613 07:26]:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've read in the mailing list about this topic from years ago, but
> > I've not seen something about my problem.
> >
> > HylaFAX: 4.3.2
> > Box: RHEL 3 AS
> >
> > 1
> > I send a fax via email2fax with exim.
> > The user exim has a /bin/false shell, which means has not the
> > capability to login into a shell so I can't 'su' from root nor login
> > like exim user.
> > I've set "faxadduser -a abcd -p abcd root"
> > In the hosts.hfaxd: ^root@::tg7.gHr.L3sKQ:5GHfSf812wXaY
>
> Can you show us the complete hosts.hfaxd?  If your concerned about
> posting the crypted passwords, * them out, or send it privately.
>
> > faxrm -a -v 2864
> > Trying localhost (127.0.0.1) at port 4559...
> > Connected to HylaFAX.
> > 220 HylaFAX server (HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.3.2) ready.
> > -> USER root
> > 230 User root logged in.
>
> This line shows that the root line you added earlier is *not* the first
> match for the attempted login.
>
> > Password:
> > -> ADMIN XXXX
> > 530 Password incorrect.
> > Admin failed: 530 Password incorrect.
> > (When I write abcd or the root password of the system)
>
> And my guess is that the earlier matching line doesn't have an admin
> password (or at least a different one)
>
>
> >
> > 6
> > I've even tried to set the user of the exim as root (the one who sent
> > the faxes via exim), but the exim philosophy set the user root in the
> > never_users list, so I can sent faxes via exim:
> > ...
> > 2007-06-13 12:13:28 1HyPqx-0001tx-W2 User 0 set for hylafax transport
> > is on the never_users list
> > 2007-06-13 12:13:28 1HyPqx-0001tx-W2 == user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx R=fax
> > T=hylafax defer (-29): User 0 set for hylafax transport is on the
> > never_users list
> >
> >
> > It is true that I can change the shell to the exim user, to define
> > another user for fax2email with a useful shell, but  this is not the
> > way.
>
> How about just "/bin/su --shell=/bin/bash - exim".  That doesn't fix the
> "hylafax admin password" problem, but let's you log in as exim.
>
> Alternately, try setting the FAXUSER environment variable so
> faxrm logs in as $FAXUSER (set it to exim).
>
> > I think that the question is, why the password in the hosts.hfaxd
> > doesn't work for me? Or maybe ¿how does it work?
> > I couldn't understand this behaviour.
>
> The 1st line that matches the user@host pattern is used.  So I'm
> guessing that the first line is somethin glike:
>        localhost
> or
>        127.0.0.1
>
> which will match your root login, and reject an ADMIN command (because
> there is no admin password)
>
> a.
>
>
>
> --
> Aidan Van Dyk                                             aidan@xxxxxxxx
> Senior Software Developer                          +1 215 825-8700 x8103
> iFAX Solutions, Inc.                                http://www.ifax.com/
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FAP

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