Hi, I also run Ubuntu and BackupPC. When I was reworking my system, Luis Paulo opened my eyes concerning keys. I now run using the visudo technique to avoid backuppc having root privilege. Read this articale:
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html Pay special attention to the visudo method. I've been running it this way for about a year now with no problems. -- ken On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 07:40 -0400, waverider wrote: > Thanks Tyler, > [quote="Tyler J. Wagner"]On Sunday 15 Aug 2010 06:58:11 waverider wrote: > > > > > As I said above ssh and rsync work and provide passless connection so the > > problem must be in Backuppc config somewhere > > > > > > > > What is the format of the external drive? If the drive hosts the backuppc > > user's home directory, make sure that .ssh and its contents have the right > > permissions. > > > The external drive is ext3 and permissions are OK as I can save to it from > the remote device using rsync > > > > > Just to be clear, make sure that you have tested SSH as the backuppc user, > > not > > root: > > > > su - backuppc > > ssh root < at > 192.168.72.11 > > > > Ahh -herein lies the problem. Thanks! At least that is clear now. > > I can rsync OK from my login but not when logged in as backuppc - it asks for > the password. However, I am using ubuntu and backuppc is a system user, so > doesn't have a home directory - so where do I generate keys? Or can I somehow > use the existing keys (which work under my login) for the backuppc user? > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
