Nut upsuser - Jun 2024 - Permissions error

https://youtu.be/vyBP7wpN72c?si=SQFhJQ7bhUAUNCIW

I watched a youtube video to get this installed.

I have standalone nut installation on Ubuntu 22.04.? UPS is a 
CP1500PFCLCD.? I have gotten as far as eliminating the no connection 
error that I was being broadcast.? I have the web view viewable at 
http://192.168.1.105/cgi-bin/nut/upsstats.cgi


The problem I have I believe is permissions.

mythuser at amethi:~$ upsdrvctl start
Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.4
Can't open /etc/nut/ups.conf: Can't open /etc/nut/ups.conf: Permission 
denied

I ran

chown root:nut upsmon.conf

chmod 0640 /etc/nut/upsmon.conf

mythuser at amethi:~$ sudo cat /etc/nut/upsd.users
[monuser]
 ? password = XXXX
 ? admin master

mythuser at amethi:~$ sudo cat /etc/nut/upsmon.conf
RUN_AS_USER root
MONITOR cyberpowerAmethi at localhost 1 admin secret master
 ?DEADTIME 25
SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown -h +0"

you need to understand what uid/gid you wish to run nut under, and
arrange that this uid/gid can open the devices, read the configs, and
write the state places.

you left out running 'id' before upsdrvctl start to see what the uid/gid
is.

(followups onlist only please)

On Jun 10, 2024, at 7:22?PM, Jack McGee wrote:
> 
> mythuser at amethi:~$ upsdrvctl start
> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.4
> Can't open /etc/nut/ups.conf: Can't open /etc/nut/ups.conf:
Permission denied
If you are sure the driver is not running (unclear from "eliminating the no
connection error"; instead check for the absence of the usbhid-ups
process), try rerunning `upsdrvctl start` with sudo.

Normally you should elevate to run e.g. `sudo upsdrvctl ...` so the NUT
driver program initializes as `root` and drops privileges to `nut`
(tweakable as the `user=...` in ups.conf, like your RUN_AS_USER in
upsmon.conf) soon after that, and default permissions on packaged files
expect that. Alternately you can run a driver's service as that user
account right away, probably, but this is not common.

Jim

On Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 01:35 Jack McGee <jack at greendesk.net> wrote:
> https://youtu.be/vyBP7wpN72c?si=SQFhJQ7bhUAUNCIW
>
> I watched a youtube video to get this installed.
>
> I have standalone nut installation on Ubuntu 22.04.  UPS is a
> CP1500PFCLCD.  I have gotten as far as eliminating the no connection
> error that I was being broadcast.  I have the web view viewable at
> http://192.168.1.105/cgi-bin/nut/upsstats.cgi
>
>
> The problem I have I believe is permissions.
>
> mythuser at amethi:~$ upsdrvctl start
> Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.7.4
> Can't open /etc/nut/ups.conf: Can't open /etc/nut/ups.conf:
Permission
> denied
>
> I ran
>
> chown root:nut upsmon.conf
>
> chmod 0640 /etc/nut/upsmon.conf
>
> mythuser at amethi:~$ sudo cat /etc/nut/upsd.users
> [monuser]
>    password = XXXX
>    admin master
>
> mythuser at amethi:~$ sudo cat /etc/nut/upsmon.conf
> RUN_AS_USER root
> MONITOR cyberpowerAmethi at localhost 1 admin secret master
>   DEADTIME 25
> SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown -h +0"
>
>
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