Re: [hylafax-users] FaxAdmin and hfaxd.conf

["Aidan Van Dyk" <aidan@xxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, should have send this to -users list too.

2008/10/16 Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@xxxxxxxx>:
> 2008/10/16 Joe Kissner <jkissner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Ok more info on this one.  I have traced it back and the request is coming
>> from AvantFax when AvantFAX calls faxstat, faxalter, faxrm, sendfax, and
>> friends it causes this to happen.  As best as i can tell hylafax just sees
>> this as apache making the request but for some reason dumps the request off
>> through PAM as faxadmin. Which we do use to authenticate on log in.  My
>> question is: Is there a way to stop Hylafax from using PAM if nothing else
>> just to see if the AvantFax crew is correct or way off.  I have tried adding
>> the "faxadmin" user but that didn't make one bit of difference.
>
> If HylaFAX is compiled with PAM, it *will* use pam (but only if no local
> hosts.hfaxd record matches).  But it looks like it's not HylaFAX
> that's causing *this* LDAP query, but your base OS setup.  "faxadmin"
> is the default value of "AdminGroup".  hfaxd does a "getgrnam()" call
> on that to, and I'm guessing you've got your NSS setup to to LDAP
> queries automatically on users/groups.



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Aidan Van Dyk                                             aidan@xxxxxxxx
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iFAX Solutions, Inc.                                http://www.ifax.com/


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