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.

  • jet@hackertalks.comOP
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      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.

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      4 months ago

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

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        4 months ago

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

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          4 months ago

          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