Nut upsdev - Jan 2009 - consolidating the NUT documentation on permissions, hotplug and udev

Arnaud et al,

I have been meaning to collect some of the documentation updates for
permission-related errors, and I was wondering if you would mind if we
moved the scripts/udev/README and scripts/hotplug/README files out of
scripts/ and into the docs/ directory (probably docs/permissions.txt).
We could also cover the *BSD /dev/usb* permission issues there, as
well.

Any thoughts on this?

-- 
- Charles Lepple

Hey Charles,

2009/1/13 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>
> Arnaud et al,
>
> I have been meaning to collect some of the documentation updates for
> permission-related errors, and I was wondering if you would mind if we
> moved the scripts/udev/README and scripts/hotplug/README files out of
> scripts/ and into the docs/ directory (probably docs/permissions.txt).
> We could also cover the *BSD /dev/usb* permission issues there, as
> well.
>
> Any thoughts on this?

that would be nice, also including the following:

1) a note on the serial permissions, including the below things from
README.Debian:
8<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 serial port permissions
    The nut user need to be able to access the serial port both for
    reading and writing.

    There are two possibilities:

    a) You can add the nut user to the dialout group.
       The following command accomplishes this:
         addgroup nut dialout

       This is not done by default for security reason.

    b) Another solution, for system supporting udev, is to create a file
       (for example /etc/udev/rules.d/52_nut-serialups.rules), placed
       after 020_permissions.rules and to add something like:
         KERNEL=="ttyS1", GROUP="nut"

       where 'ttyS1' has to be replaced by the exact name of your serial
port.

8<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
As a side note, the "dialout" group has to be replaced by uucp or
whatever
group that has the serial port ownership.

2) a note on Solaris USB permissions. Here is a base (warning: for MGE
only):
8<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
c) Bind MGE units to Solaris USB /Ugen layer using:

# add_drv -i '"usb463,ffff.1"' -m '* 0660 nut root'
ugen
# update_drv -a -m '* 0666 root sys' -i
'"usb463,0001.1"' ugen
# reboot -- -r
8<------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

As a side note, we might consider generating a script for Solaris too...

Arnaud
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