[Nut-upsuser] FreeBSD usbhid-ups problem

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Arjen de Korte wrote:
> >> Are the 'usbhid-ups' (driver) and 'upsd' (server) also running as
> >> 'nutmon'? We recommend that they run as a different user than the
> >> 'upsmon' (client).
> >
> > They are running as the same user.. It shouldn't stop it working
> > though, right?
>
> No, it's just a matter of securing things. There is a (small) benefit
> in running them as different users.

OK that's what I thought :)

> What was the result after running the driver as root (add '-u root'
> to the 'upsdrvctl' commandline)?

I tried that but no change :(

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