Re: [hylafax-users] unable to determine source of usernames - faxstat -s

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben Hodgens wrote:
> I am trying to identify the source of the usernames listed within logs
> and with a faxstat -s. How are these names provided to hylafax? We use
> iFax HylaFSP for our user's faxing frontend.
>   

The name there is the value provided with the "USER" command given by 
the client to the server during authentication.  Typically this 
corresponds to some username in hosts.hfaxd or /etc/passwd (if 
authenticating with PAM), but if the client authenticates based on IP 
address or some other non-username-based way, then the value there is 
simply whatever the client chose to supply with the "USER" command.

> My predecessor claimed the users were authenticated against pam, but I'm
> not seeing anything which would lead to such a conclusion: pam's
> configurations appear generic, and there is not a single string in the
> pam.d directory indicating association to our backend directory service
> where these users are created. Likewise, hosts.hfaxd only has host
> specific entries for root.
>   

If the hosts.hfaxd file does not contain any network or IP address type 
authentications, and if hosts.hfaxd does not contain any usernames other 
than "root" (and the usernames you see being used are not "root"), then 
there should be a "hylafax" configuration file in pam.d.

> Is it possible that these accounts are not authenticating, per se, but
> are simply passing a (windows) user ID via hylafsp?

Yes, if they're authenticating based on IP address, for example.

Thanks,

Lee.


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