TIPS Avantfax New Users Credentials not working

[volenec]

Does anyone know how to properly add additional users to AvantFAX? I am running AvantFAX 3.3.3 on IncrediblePBX Purple. I am able to send and receive faxes while logged on as "maint". I have added a couple new users in AvantFAX but when I try to log on as the new user the credentials are rejected and fail2ban blocks my IP after 3 attempts. Are there some configuration steps that I am missing.

 

[roehlaguila]

anybody out there that can help us?

 

[randy7376]

For your issue with fail2ban blocking your IP, you can add your LAN/WAN IP addresses in the configuration so you stop getting banned. Look for the ignoreip directive in /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf . For example:

ignoreip = ignoreip = 127.0.0.1 10.0.0.0/8 192.168.1.0/24

Be sure to restart fail2ban:

service fail2ban restart

I"m afraid I can't help you with your AvantFax problem as I don't have it installed on anything at the moment and I'm not overly familiar with its operation.

 

[grillovillegas]

Does anyone know how to properly add additional users to AvantFAX? I am running AvantFAX 3.3.3 on IncrediblePBX Purple. I am able to send and receive faxes while logged on as "maint". I have added a couple new users in AvantFAX but when I try to log on as the new user the credentials are rejected and fail2ban blocks my IP after 3 attempts. Are there some configuration steps that I am missing.

Did you find a fix for this ?

Thanks

 

[Mark D. Montgomery II]

By default the Avantfax directory is protected by the Apache basic auth (and PIAF when logged in as maint apparently passes Avantfax admin account authentication over to it), which of course doesn't know the users created in Avantfax are. I just did some quick testing and found you can do this to get around things (sort of):
1. Create another admin/superuser in Avantfax.
2. Comment out everything in the /etc/pbx/httpdconf/avantfax.conf file and restart apache

This will allow you to access /avantfax and actually hit it's internal authentication, with a couple oddities.
1. You can't directly login as maint this way, you have to use the users you created (thus why you make another admin/superuser account).
2. If you launch Avantfax from the PIAF menu, if you haven't logged into the FreePBX administration as maint yet Avantfax will bring up the normal login. If you HAVE already logged in as maint, it will pass that through to avantfax and auto login as maint (and won't let you log out).