[Nut-upsuser] Getting "Error: No such host" and [ERR ACCESS-DENIED]

[Charles Lepple]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Roger Price <roger at rogerprice.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Charles Lepple wrote:
[...]
>>> On system startup I get the following messages in /var/log/messages
>>> ...
>>> upsmon[23711]: Startup successful
>>> upsmon[23712]: Login on UPS [Eaton-66781 at localhost] failed - got
>>>               [ERR ACCESS-DENIED]
>>
>> Your upsd user and password in upsmon.conf (on the MONITOR line) need to
>> match an appropriately privileged user in upsd.users.
>
> My upsmon.conf MONITOR line is
>
> MONITOR Eaton-66781 at localhost 1 upsmaster sekret master
>
> and upsd.users says
>
> [upsmaster]
>        password = sekret
>        upsmon master
>
> so the user and password match.  Is this enough to be "appropriately
> privileged", or do I need more?

My mistake, that part looks good. It looks like the same "ERR
ACCESS-DENIED" code is returned for a problem with
upsd.users/upsmon.conf versus a TCP wrappers match failure.

What if you run 'tcpdchk' against your hosts.allow file? I am not
terribly familiar with TCP wrappers, and your configuration looked
reasonable, but it's possible that there is a problem with the syntax.

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- Charles Lepple