On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:56:16 -0400 Charles Lepple <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What are you trying to optimize? > > > > nothing, but I just did not want another daemon running, or at > > least I do not want a port open that can access the UPS, because I > > will not be using it; it is more of a minor security issue than > > anything. The instructions I read said to set up that port in NUT > > configuration, but I would rather not set that. > > I forgot to mention: by default, NUT listens on localhost. If you are > using Linux, you could add a "-m owner --uid-owner" rule to iptables > to only match the UID for the NUT system user.
Thanks; if it listens on localhost by default, that is enough for me, though I recall that is not as secure as listening on 127.0.0.1. I never really used iptables much and am not using it now, so I do not think I will need to do. I do not see why I cannot just turn off the port usage, since I have root access and only ever use NUT from a shell. _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
