Nut upsuser - Feb 2022 - user upsd not found

I'm trying to debug why NUT can't communicate with my UPS, so I run this
command

# upsdrvctl -t -u upsd -DDDD start

and get this output:

...

    0.000804	Starting UPS: ups
    0.000875	3 remaining attempts
    0.000924	exec:  /lib/nut/apcsmart -a ups -u upsd

So I run "/lib/nut/apcsmart -a ups -u upsd" and get this:

# /lib/nut/apcsmart -a ups -u upsd
Network UPS Tools - APC Smart protocol driver 3.1 (2.7.4)
APC command table version 3.1
user upsd not found

There is a 'nut' userid, but not a 'upsd' userid.  Is this a
bug?

On 2/5/22 03:22, Timur Tabi wrote:
> I'm trying to debug why NUT can't communicate with my UPS, so I run
> this command
>
> # upsdrvctl -t -u upsd -DDDD start
>
> and get this output:
>
> ...
>
> ?? 0.000804??? Starting UPS: ups
> ?? 0.000875??? 3 remaining attempts
> ?? 0.000924??? exec:? /lib/nut/apcsmart -a ups -u upsd
>
> So I run "/lib/nut/apcsmart -a ups -u upsd" and get this:
>
> # /lib/nut/apcsmart -a ups -u upsd
> Network UPS Tools - APC Smart protocol driver 3.1 (2.7.4)
> APC command table version 3.1
> user upsd not found
>
> There is a 'nut' userid, but not a 'upsd' userid.? Is this
a bug?

YOU used "-u upsd" in the command line.


 ?????? -u username
 ?????????? If starting a driver, this value will direct it to setuid(2) 
to the user id associated with username.