hddtemp, a password is required, 20.2

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imxaditya21
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hddtemp, a password is required, 20.2

Post by imxaditya21 »

I just checked my logs and found this:

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Sender: sudo
Message: aditya : a password is required ; TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/aditya ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/hddtemp -nq -u C /dev/sda
Priority : 1
should I be worried about this? If yes, what's the solution?
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Re: hddtemp, a password is required, 20.2

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I don't know either but because of this I switched to psensor.
MAlfare

Re: hddtemp, a password is required, 20.2

Post by MAlfare »

imxaditya21 wrote: Sun Sep 26, 2021 3:49 am

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Sender: sudo
Message: aditya : a password is required ; TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/aditya ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/hddtemp -nq -u C /dev/sda

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~ $ hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: open: Keine Berechtigung

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 ls -l /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Sep 27 20:20 /dev/sda
Normal user is not allowed to read /dev/sda

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 ~ $ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: ST1000DM003-1ER162: 28°C
I would not be worried about that
ajgringo619

Re: hddtemp, a password is required, 20.2

Post by ajgringo619 »

Are you running conky or a panel widget that checks your hard drive temp?
imxaditya21
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Re: hddtemp, a password is required, 20.2

Post by imxaditya21 »

Yes I use conky. But now I don't see the issue in logs, i think it got resolved now
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