Re: [hylafax-users] User access to documents

[Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxx>]

Please email me on replies, not just the list.

* Carlos Lorenzo Matés <clmates@xxxxxxxxxxx> [080123 14:03]:
> Hi Aidan.
> 
> 
> El Miércoles, 23 de Enero de 2008, Aidan Van Dyk escribió:
> > * Carlos Lorenzo Matés <clmates@xxxxxxxxxxx> [080123 08:53]:
> > > Then the option AdminGroup has no use?
> >
> > As Lee would say, "I can't speak to HylaFAX+, but it works in HylaFAX"
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > > If i want to use pam for users, but define several admins can i put the
> > > admins in the hosts file?
> > >
> > > I have tried but without success
> >
> > AdminGroup is in HylaFAX, and does work.  But you have to be careful how
> > you use it.  Remember, hfaxd does a chroot, so "/etc/group" is not the
> > same in the chroot as in the real root.
> 
> but if he uses pam it does not look ate the groups files only, it first looks 
> at ldap, right?

Sure, as long as your NSS isn't going back to try and look at
/etc/nsswitch.conf.

Stracing hfaxd would tell you if that's the problem.

> I'm going to try with this i was changing the file just 
> under /etc/hylafax/etc/

If you're using the debian twin directories, make sure you stop/start
HylafAX to get their directory syncing done.
 

> How do you setup this last step?

I did this by putting a /etc/group in $SPOOL chroot.  I don't have a
LDAP or any other fancy PAM setup to test against, only plain unix
passwd/group files.

a.

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