[Nut-upsdev] Re: Common Power Management : NUT and HAL (stage 1)

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 19:09 +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > So, the addon is actually launched with super user privileges so you
> > don't need extra privileges at all. Unless the Debian hal package
> > doesn't work this way. Sjoerd?
> 
> We don't patch anything in that area, so addons and probes are indeed started
> as root (thatis in unstable and testing, but i assume development is done on
> that).

Great stuff, thanks for the quick reply!

Cheers,
David