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Re: Another predefined group in /etc/group: ups?



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> On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 09:14:33PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > Luca Filipozzi <lfilipoz@emyr.net> and his sponsor Remi Lefebvre=20
> > (remi@debian.org) are working on packaging the nut. I hope it will be=20
> > available as soon as possible.
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> I have finished packaging nut. Remi will be reviewing it shortly and it sho=
> uld
> be uploaded within a couple of days.
> 


Thank you. Can you put it in Remi's home dir in the meanwhile so that I will 
be able to pick it up? Is Remi's home dir www.debian.org/~remi?


> > Luca is not in favor of additional group. He wants to use the already exi=
> stent
> > daemon group.
> In fact, it's running as nobody/nogroup. Only one program, upsmon, needs to=
>  run
> as root so that it can call "shutdown".
> 
> nut implements a client/server architecture that allows one computer to act
> as a server to other computers connected to the same UPS. This allows one
> UPS to be shared between computers without the need to purchase serial port
> sharing hardware. Obviously, the hub or switch to which all these computers
> are connected requires to be powered by the UPS, too.
> 
> So, the "server" must run three processes:
> 1) a UPS specific daemon: like apcsmart for APC SmartUPS and BackUPS Pro
> 2) the UPS server daemon: upsd
> 3) the UPS client daemon: upsmon -- this is what shuts down the box and
>                                     it communicates to upsd on localhost
> 
> A "client" must run only one process:
> 1) the UPS client daemon: upsmon -- communicates to upsd on "server"
> 
> Of the three types of processes, only "upsmon" needs to run as root. All the
> others run as nobody/nogroup.


This seems to be the defaults that the package author has chosen. I hope it 
can be taken as a good compromise.


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> Luca Filipozzi
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Shaul Karl		 		   shaulk@israsrv.net.il
	An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.



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Shaul Karl		 		   shaulk@israsrv.net.il
	An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.



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