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Synology plus APC Easy UPS (power chute) (hackertalks.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted
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Setting up a Synology server, I made the mistake of just buying a UPS that had a USB plug on the back thinking oh this is a solved problem, it must just work. No no far from it.

So the UPS I mistakenly purchased is not compatible with Synology. SRV1KI-E wants to run this weird program called PowerChute.

Anyone have success marrying this into the Synology ecosystem?

It also has a RS 232 serial port, I wonder if there's an off-the-shelf device that would speak serial but output power state via the network or USB.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Well I'm ranting about this process, I have other complaints.

Synology.com - if you want to add a second factor to your account, requires a phone number to be the master factor, in case you lose your second factor. So if you're worried about Sim jacking, or even just not having a consistent phone number for the lifetime of the deployment, it's kind of a terrible practice. There's no way to unlink all phone numbers from an account, you can only replace them with a new phone number.

Synology does actually support hardware USB keys, but only as a secondary factor behind SMS... Ai ya.

[–] dktr 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So… I use a physical passkey as a second factor on top of username and password on all three of my Synology-boxes. I have TOTP as backup in case I should lose my passkey.

Anyways - synology has no clue about my phone number, so I’m not sure I agree with your sentiment that it’s a requirement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The synology.com account, not the NAS account

[–] dktr 2 points 4 months ago

Ah! Misread your comment in that case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

AND their Synology drive client requires administrative permission to install on Mac OS, and on Windows. Why? Why.....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'd guess that those OSes may not permit arbitrary software without administrative privileges to initiate shutdowns. That's the case on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh the synology drive is a file system syncing utility, it provides local caching of a remote file system and then syncs the files back. It's not the software that shuts down the computer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

To run a service outside the user context, probably.