On Sunday 15 Aug 2010 12:40:32 waverider wrote: > 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?
Most system users do have a home, and backuppc certainly will. On Ubuntu 8.04 and 10.04, it is /var/lib/backuppc. r...@backup1:~# grep backuppc /etc/passwd backuppc:x:106:116:BackupPC,,,:/var/lib/backuppc:/bin/sh Do make sure this user has a shell. /bin/sh works for me. Then su to the user and generate keys, or copy a trusted key to the user. Regards, Tyler -- "If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
