[Nut-upsuser] [Nut-upsdev] Shutdown by battery.remaining or battery.runtime?

[Arjen de Korte]

>> If you have any more questions regarding this, please use the
>> nut-upsuser
>> mailinglist instead.
> Redirected to the appropriate list, sorry.

No need to apologize here. You're question for the addition of a feature
was relevant on the development mailinglist, but since there is a way to
do this in NUT already exists, any questions about the latter should be
directed to the nut-upsuser mailinglist.

[...]

> upsrw listed the values that may be changed, but it would not change
> them. When I try it asks for a username/password.  I tried root,
> nut (the user "built into" nut), and the single user entry in
> upsd.users.  In all cases this happened:
>
> % /usr/local/ups/bin/upsrw -s battery.charge.low=25 -u root
> apcups at localhost
> Password:
> Unexpected response from upsd: ERR ACCESS-DENIED
>
> This is nut 2.2.2 built from source.
>
> Possibly relevant, the password for the upsd.users account is 23
> characters long.  Too long for the software maybe???  It works ok
> with upsmon though.

The username and password should be listed in 'upsd.users'. But (and this
is probably what goes wrong), this user should also be allowed to change
variables through the 'actions' field (see 'man 5 upsd.users'). If you
don't list this, the user is denied access by default.

Best regards, Arjen