Is there supposed to be a "upsmon" built in user?

[ryun]

The default user specified for the UPS service is "upsmon" and the tip indicates it's best to just leave this as the default. However, I noticed that there is no user in my users list with this name, even after checking the "Show built-in users" toggle. Should there be? Would appreciate some insight into how that's supposed to work if no "upsmon" user is necessary. Thanks.

 

[LarsR]

I'm using the upsmon user for my ups, but i dont have a build-in user called upsmon.
It's still working for me :/

 

[winnielinnie]

The reference to "upsmon" is not a Unix or Linux user. It's a declared "user" in the upsd.users file. Nothing to do with any actual users on the operating system itself.

Default example in TrueNAS Core:

cat /etc/local/nut/upsd.users

Code:

[upsmon]
        password = fixmepass
        upsmon master

Notice the section [upsmon] as the only "user" in this NUT config file.

The only difference for SCALE is where this config file might reside, but it's the same underlying NUT software.


Chalk this up to "yet another poorly worded tooltip" in the GUI.

 

[ryun]

Thanks for the tip @winnielinnie! Still a novice with linux so this explanation was much appreciated.