Re: [BackupPC-users] Basic setup issues (Ubuntu 12.10)

2013-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Travis.Schwenke wrote: > I guess one important question I have then is, should I be adding my account > to the backuppc group and should I be adding the backuppc user to anything? That should not be necessary. Permissions are based on the backuppc user owning all

Re: [BackupPC-users] Basic setup issues (Ubuntu 12.10)

2013-01-04 Thread Travis.Schwenke
I guess one important question I have then is, should I be adding my account to the backuppc group and should I be adding the backuppc user to anything? I don't think the user should be done moved as that seems like it could be a security issue. > You mentioned something about your 'only' list

Re: [BackupPC-users] Basic setup issues (Ubuntu 12.10)

2013-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Travis Schwenke wrote: > >> Are you talking about the "backuppc" system user, which owns the data >> files >> and SSH keys, and runs some programs like rsync? Or are you talking about >> the HTTPauth user? Your example commands seem to indicate that you >> understan

Re: [BackupPC-users] Basic setup issues (Ubuntu 12.10)

2013-01-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-01-04 15:08, Travis Schwenke wrote: > Well, I figured there were two but wasn't 100% sure. So the frustrating > part would be that I seem to NOT know then the password to the backuppc > USER that was created on the system. That's because you really shouldn't need it. I don't know my backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Basic setup issues (Ubuntu 12.10)

2013-01-04 Thread Travis Schwenke
> Are you talking about the "backuppc" system user, which owns the data files > and SSH keys, and runs some programs like rsync? Or are you talking about > the HTTPauth user? Your example commands seem to indicate that you > understand there are two. Well, I figured there were two but wasn't 100%

Re: [BackupPC-users] Basic setup issues (Ubuntu 12.10)

2013-01-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-01-04 12:40, Travis Schwenke wrote: > * Ok.. I can't even change backuppc password! I figured I would su over > to backuppc but that doesn't even work. *How do I change the password > on Ubuntu?* Are you talking about the "backuppc" system user, which owns the data files and SS

[BackupPC-users] Basic setup issues (Ubuntu 12.10)

2013-01-04 Thread Travis Schwenke
I recently installed Ubuntu 12.10 (non server) but desire to run some server type aps. In looking for a centralized backup solution I settled on BackupPC. Not being a unix expert I figured having the GUI would help. Well I have a few issues! The good: - I can access the webpage from the Ubu