I'm commenting on this here just in case it helps someone else out.
Running Ubuntu 10.04, upgraded from 8.04 and initially hylafax was
working great. Then I noticed the following symptoms appeared, probably
after restarting hylafax:

+ Every time I start hylafax, a new mount point is created /etc/hylafax
<-> /var/spool/hylafax/etc. IOW, it isn't unmounted when the service is
stopped.

+ Something changed the permissions of /etc/hosts.hfaxd from uucp:uucp
rw------- to root:root rw-r--r--

+ Running faxstat or sendfax like I used to do without a password now
results in password prompts, and trying all kinds of things in
/etc/hosts.hfaxd didn't help.

Turns out, the changed permissions were the culprit. As soon as I
umounted all those extra mounts, changed the permissions back to
uucp:uucp rw------, and restarted the service, I could once again
interact with sendfax and faxstat without entering a password, because
of my localhost entry in /etc/hosts.hfaxd.

I'm also having the faxadduser problem, but have worked around it as I
really don't need it in my configuration by editing
/var/www/avantfax/include/config.php and changing the $FAXADDUSER cmd to
'faxadduser -f /tmp/bogus'. I need my users managed in the MySQL
Avantfax database but I only need the localhost entry in
/etc/hosts.hfaxd.

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  faxadduser doesn't write in hosts.hfaxd

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