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

Roger Price roger at rogerprice.org
Tue Jun 29 14:22:47 BST 2021


On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, Jim Klimov wrote:

> 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

Ok, I will make the change in the I-D, with a note saying that current practice 
is to use LOGIN.  This will help a lot in explaining how upsd and upsmon 
operate.

Roger



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