[Nut-upsuser] Request For Additional Status Confirmation

Roger Price roger at rogerprice.org
Tue Mar 9 11:42:53 GMT 2021


On Sun, 7 Mar 2021, Jon Kinne via Nut-upsuser wrote:

>> OK, I have one user, "pi".  Here is the list of permissions:
> Matching Defaults entries for pi on raspberry-pi:
>     env_reset, mail_badpass,
> secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bi 
> n,
>     env_keep+=NO_AT_BRIDGE, env_keep+="http_proxy HTTP_PROXY",
>     env_keep+="https_proxy HTTPS_PROXY", env_keep+="ftp_proxy FTP_PROXY",
>     env_keep+=RSYNC_PROXY, env_keep+="no_proxy NO_PROXY"
>
> User pi may run the following commands on raspberry-pi:
>     (ALL : ALL) ALL
>     (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
>
> Given that, I don't see what you would have me do. I'm sure it all seems 
> obvious to you, but if "pi" can do everything, why doesn't the command run?

Given that the consensus seems to be to use « su -c "/path/command" nut » or « 
su nut -c "/path/command" », and that I don't have a Raspberry Pi to play with, 
I suggest using su.

Roger


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