[Nut-upsuser] odd msg at top of upsc output

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 5/31/19 9:34 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 31 May 2019 01:29:51 am Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> On 5/31/19 6:54 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings all; gene at coyote:~$ upsc myups Init SSL without 
>>> certificate database battery.charge: 100 battery.charge.low: 30 
>>> [yadda yadda] Is there a certificate package I should install? 
>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett 
>> the nut client ( upsc ) is trying to use the NSS-based SSL backend of 
>> your OS (in order to avoid sending passwords in clear text to the 
>> UPS) but the backend is not initialized yet. look for the docs 
>> appropriate for your distro in order to find out how to create the 
>> database used by NSS 
> Sorry wolfy, but NSS is not an acronym I am familiar with.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS

in short, it is one set of the libraries providing security-enabled 
access to the user-facing applications . and it has become pretty 
popular and widely adopted in the last 5 years or so.



> This I assume is new feature in stretch? It wasn't a problem for wheezy. 
I am not a debian user so I am less familiar with the lifetime of 
packages over there but no, it is not a new feature in stretch. Pease 
see https://launchpad.net/debian/wheezy/+source/nss

As to your actual problem, I suspect you need to look at certutil , 
maybe something along

     certutil -N -d dbm:NSS_db --empty-password // -N here stands for 
"New" database

Please read the docs and verify all the above prior to attempting to 
use, especially as stretch might prefer sql instead of dbm