[Nut-upsuser] User credential for cgi site

[Charles Lepple]

On 5/7/07, Doug Parsons <doparsons at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Network UPS Tools upsset 2.0.4
>
> set input.transfer.high to 130 (was 127)
> Error: SET failed: Access denied
> No settings changed.

What about the webserver error log?

Have you checked the man page for upsset.conf?

Can you try on the command line with upsrw?

> I thought that it would use one of the users from the upsd.users file. But
> neither one of these nor the nut user will work.

Do those users (in upsd.users) have monitor privileges? I think that's
a step up from just being able to see values with upsc.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Lepple" <clepple at gmail.com>
> To: "Doug Parsons" <doparsons at earthlink.net>
> Cc: <nut-upsuser at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] User credential for cgi site
>
>
> > On 5/5/07, Doug Parsons <doparsons at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> Running into a little problem. I have several UPS units connected to one
> >> server. Then several servers talk to this server. All of this is working.
> >> When I try to set a setting with the setting.cgi page I get an access
> >> denied. Which credential does the setting.cgi page authenticate against?
> >
> > I assume you mean upsset.cgi. I believe the web server needs monitor
> > privileges, and the UPS has to be listed in hosts.conf.
> >
> > Can you cut-and-paste the error message verbatim? That should narrow
> > things down. Also, check your web server error log to see if any more
> > detailed messages are there.
> >
> >> I am running 2.0.4 and the particular UPS is a 2200RM APC.
> >
> > Who built the 2.0.4 package you are using?
> >
> > --
> > - Charles Lepple
> >
> >
>
>
>


-- 
- Charles Lepple