Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax asking for password

[David Forrest <drf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote:

> Lee Howard wrote (on Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 08:46:46PM -0700):
> > N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote:
> > > I have two Lucid machines running Hylafax; one asks for a password on
> > > EVERYTHING, including, e.g., faxstat, and the other doesn't. I much
> > > prefer the second machine's behavior. How do I encourage the first
> > > machine to behave like the second machine?
> >
> > See:  http://hylafax.sourceforge.net/man/hosts.hfaxd.php
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Lee.
>
> Thanks for writing back.
>
> I copied that file from good machine to bad machine and restarted HF. No
> joy. The file contains:
>
> localhost:21::
>
> (there is no user ID on either system == 21)
>
> What now?
you might try this:
[drf@maplepark ~]$ sudo cat /var/spool/hylafax/etc/hosts.hfaxd
localhost
127.0.0.1
[drf@maplepark ~]$

as the documentation indicates all but the first field are optional and my 
installation works well with the above (no passwords).

Dave
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