[Nut-upsdev] Re: [nut-commits] svn commit r731

[Arjen de Korte]

> We don't have to wait that long. We could already check for this in the
> listen_add() function. If a port lower than 1024 is specified and the
> --privileged option (or something like that) is not specified, we already
> know opening the socket is probably not going to work. I don't think we
> should check if '-u <user>' was specified here by the way. Although
> privileges won't be dropped in case no user was specified

Errrr, if no user is specified, the default user as specified by the
--with-user option is used of course. So this should be 'Although
privileges won't be dropped in case '-u root' was specified'

> (and it doesn't
> matter when to open the sockets) I think people should be made aware of
> this. Otherwise they may (wrongly) assume that specifying a privileged
> port requires upsd to run as root. I don't think running nut on a
> non-default port is that common anyway, so this option is merely used for
> our peace of mind in case we misjudged this.

Best regards, Arjen