Nut upsdev - Mar 2010 - Tripp-Lite SU2200XLA problem (fwd)

On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 07:14:59PM -0500, Charles Lepple
wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Kelvin Ku wrote:
>
>> However, if I try to run usbhid-ups as user "nut", I get:
>>
>> $ sudo -u nut ./usbhid-ups -a usb
> [...]
>> Whereas if I run it as root:
>>
>> $ sudo ./usbhid-ups -a usb -u root
>
> Did you pass "--with-user=nut" to ./configure?
>
> If so, you should be able to test with just "sudo ./usbhid-ups -a
usb"
> (use sudo for root access, and let the driver setuid() to "nut".)
>
> For the upsd issue, check your state path and pid paths (also options to 
> ./configure).
>
Sorry, I should have clarified this. My configure options were:

./configure --with-user=nut --with-group=dialout --with-statepath=/var/run/
nut --with-pidpath=/var/run/nut --with-altpidpath=/var/run/nut --sysconfdir=/
etc/ups --with-drvpath=/sbin --with-all --with-pkgconfig-dir=/usr/lib/
pkgconfig --disable-static --without-ipv6

mostly ripped from the Fedora 12 2.4.1 specfile. I'm pretty sure the
--with-user=nut options is in effect since I instrumented libusb_get_report to
print the results of getresuid().

- Kelvin

On Mar 9, 2010, at 7:38 PM, Kelvin Ku wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 07:14:59PM -0500, Charles Lepple wrote:
>> On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Kelvin Ku wrote:
>>
>>> However, if I try to run usbhid-ups as user "nut", I get:
>>>
>>> $ sudo -u nut ./usbhid-ups -a usb
>> [...]
>>> Whereas if I run it as root:
>>>
>>> $ sudo ./usbhid-ups -a usb -u root
>>
>> Did you pass "--with-user=nut" to ./configure?
>>
>> If so, you should be able to test with just "sudo ./usbhid-ups -a
>> usb"
>> (use sudo for root access, and let the driver setuid() to
"nut".)
>>
>> For the upsd issue, check your state path and pid paths (also  
>> options to
>> ./configure).
>>
>
> Sorry, I should have clarified this. My configure options were:
>
> ./configure --with-user=nut --with-group=dialout --with-statepath=/ 
> var/run/
> nut --with-pidpath=/var/run/nut --with-altpidpath=/var/run/nut -- 
> sysconfdir=/
> etc/ups --with-drvpath=/sbin --with-all --with-pkgconfig-dir=/usr/lib/
> pkgconfig --disable-static --without-ipv6
>
> mostly ripped from the Fedora 12 2.4.1 specfile. I'm pretty sure the
> --with-user=nut options is in effect since I instrumented  
> libusb_get_report to
> print the results of getresuid().
If so, then my original suggestion still stands: "sudo ./usbhid-ups -a  
usb"