Re: [hylafax-users] Hylafax asking for password

["N. Yaakov Ziskind" <awacs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Forrest wrote (on Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:16:45AM -0500):
> 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

That worked. But why does the original format work on one machine but
not another ... ?
<scratches head>

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