[Nut-upsuser] NUT command LOGIN is not a login

[Jim Klimov]

Sounds reasonable to me, and hopefully might be aliased in a
legacy-compatible manner (client asks with new command, if rejected try
old; accept both words on server side) so it could happen in current master.

Note that similar protocol changes e.g. for master vs primary were just
planned as a theoretical construct, but I did not code any PoC (beside
commenting the idea) nor saw any PRs to such effect.

Bite-size contribution that would be a little coding and a lot of testing
(combining new and old binaries as servers and clients) is welcome :)

Jim

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 11:00 Roger Price <roger at rogerprice.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jun 2021, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> > On 6/26/21 10:26 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> >> On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Mark Hansen wrote:
> >>> On 6/24/2021 5:48 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> >>>> Comment: had the command LOGIN been called SETACTIVE, with the
> >>>> upsmon flag ST_LOGIN changed to ST_ACTIVE, and NUMLOGINS changed to
> >>>> NUMACTIVE this mechanism would probably be easier to understand.
> >>>> LOGOUT might be NOTACTIVE.
> >>>>
> >>>>     Current   Proposed
> >>>>     LOGIN     SETACTIVE
> >>>>     LOGOUT    NOTACTIVE
> >>>>     NUMLOGINS NUMACTIVE
> >>>>     ST_LOGIN  ST_ACTIVE
> >>
> >>> What about:
> >>>     Current    Proposed
> >>>     LOGIN      ATTACH
> >>>     LOGOUT     DETACH
> >>>     NUMLOGINS  NUMATTACHED
> >>>     ST_LOGIN   ST_ATTACHED
> >>
> >> Better.  ATTACH is simpler and clearer than SETACTIVE.  Roger
> >
> > +1 !
>
> Jim, I would like to suggest this as a change to NUT - not something to be
> done
> for the next release, but, like some other things in the draft RFC (I-D),
> as a
> statement of direction for the project.
>
> If the project as a whole can agree on this, I will make the change LOGIN
> ->
> ATTACH in the I-D with a note saying that current practice is to use
> LOGIN.  Do
> we need to vote?
>
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