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On Nov 22, 2017, at 7:39 PM, Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote: > > The new branch will only attach to the device if I pass the '-u root' flag to usbhid-ups. fixed: https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/compare/dfd514e...80bc452 still looking for volunteers to test the libusb-1.0 code on FreeBSD and other systems.

Hi all, I am doing some final testing of the libusb-1.0 branch (specifically https://github.com/zykh/nut.git branch libusb-1.0+0.1 @ dfd514e7), and I am running across a regression in usbhid-ups relative to the previous libusb-0.1 code running on FreeBSD. Basically, the master (2.7.4+; c703fa75) code was able to start running as root, drop privileges (usually to uucp, the default for the ports tree), and then attach to the USB device. T...