[Nut-upsuser] Is UPSD necessary for average users?

[Chris Boot]

On 16/10/13 06:40, David N Melik wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:56:16 -0400
> Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > >> What are you trying to optimize?
>>> > > 
>>> > > nothing, but I just did not want another daemon running, or at
>>> > > least I do not want a port open that can access the UPS, because I
>>> > > will not be using it; it is more of a minor security issue than
>>> > > anything. The instructions I read said to set up that port in NUT
>>> > > configuration, but I would rather not set that.
>> > 
>> > I forgot to mention: by default, NUT listens on localhost. If you are
>> > using Linux, you could add a "-m owner --uid-owner" rule to iptables
>> > to only match the UID for the NUT system user.
> Thanks; if it listens on localhost by default, that is enough for me,
> though I recall that is not as secure as listening on 127.0.0.1.

127.0.0.1 *is* localhost.

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