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

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 31 May 2019 10:08:02 am Charles Lepple wrote:

> On May 31, 2019, at 1:29 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
>
> Correct, the Debian and Ubuntu packages use the NSS-based SSL backend,
> but the message is spurious (upsc does not send passwords) and can be
> ignored.
>
> To be honest, I thought we had fixed this a while ago (NUT 2.7.1), but
> I guess it popped back up again:
> https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/30

nut 2.7.2.  Built from the tarball. Some option I should have configured 
it for?

Thanks all.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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