On 16/10/13 06:40, David N Melik wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:56:16 -0400 > Charles Lepple <clep...@gmail.com> 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.
127.0.0.1 *is* localhost. -- Chris Boot bo...@bootc.net _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list Nut-upsuser@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
