Unable to use old-style MONITOR line without a username

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
When trying to start WinNUT. Log shows error 
"Unable to use old-style MONITOR line without a username"
"Convert it and add a username to upsd.users - see the documentation"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.0.0.4a/Win Server 2012 R2

Please provide any additional information below.
upsd.users file DOES NOT like password for winNUT monitor username set with 
ASCII characters. Use alphanumeric passwords only or it will throw this error 
code telling you that you don't have a username set when you really do.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 20 Feb 2015 at 4:13