Being such a beginner, I didn't realize I was creating a problem with
root...I took your advice and removed "sudo"...is that enough, or is
there something else I should do for security?
On 3/7/2021 5:06 AM, Roger Price wrote:
On Sat, 6 Mar 2021, Jon Kinne via Nut-upsuser wrote:
I created a script called "reboot_notify" and saved it in
usr/local/bin, and it looks like this:
Yes, good approach to the problem. In my solution there was an
error. Instead of "@reboot root ups-report &", I should have said
"@reboot nut ups-report &". It was bad security to execute as superuser.
# Have the system pause while all the mail elements load,
sleep 60
# and then run the script:
sudo /usr/local/bin/reboot_notify
Do you need to get root involved? If a hacker can substitute his
reboot_notify for yours, he gets full control.
Roger
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