[Nut-upsuser] [SOLVED] mge pc 675 does not work with usb-hidups

christophe christophe.dr at free.fr
Mon Dec 31 16:16:50 UTC 2007


Re: [Bug 351025] New: NUT - upsd user created with wrong group

> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=351025
>
>
>            Summary: NUT - upsd user created with wrong group
>            Product: openSUSE 10.3
>            Version: Final
>           Platform: i386
>         OS/Version: Other
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: Normal
>           Priority: P5 - None
>          Component: Other
>         AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening at forge.provo.novell.com
>         ReportedBy: suse+build at de-korte.org
>          QAContact: qa at suse.de
>                 CC: christophe.dr at free.fr
>           Found By: Customer
>
>
> There is an error in the packaging of NUT. In the 'configure' commandline
> options, the user and group are set to:
>
>         --with-user==%{USER}\
>         --with-group=uucp
>
> But the user that is added is not a member of the 'uucp' group, see below:
>
> %pre
> usr/sbin/useradd -r -o -g daemon -s /bin/false \
>   -c "UPS daemon" -d /sbin %USER 2>/dev/null || :
>
> This doesn't work for devices that require udev rules to change the
> ownership of the port where they are attached to (ie, USB devices).
>
> Proposed change is to run configure with
>
>         --with-group=daemon
>
> since this doesn't require older installations (where the 'upsd' user
> already exists) to change the group of said user.

Thanks. I hope they'll correct it.


-- 
christophe
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