THANKS! On 10/26/07, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kindof > > the username you put in the host file in backuppc only applies to the web > session you login to backuppc as > > if i pick some random name(it does not have to be for a user on the system) > > franko > > and add that users to the htpasswd file > > htpasswd /etc/backuppc/htpasswd franko > > it will ask me for a password. now franko can log in with that passwod > > now, i can add franko to the host file > > > host dhcp user moreUsers > yaakovlt 0 franko > > now franko, and the backuppc admin user, can manage yaakovlt, but no one > else > > if i change this to > > host dhcp user moreUsers > yaakovlt 0 franko stevo > > now franko, stevo, and backuppc can manage. > > that make sense? > > > > > On 10/26/07, Yaakov Chaikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Really? Cool! > > > > So, the user listed in the 'hosts' files has nothing to do with the > > user set up on the yaakovlt machine, but has to do with the user setup > > in BackupPC? > > > > Thanks, > > Yaakov. > > > > On 10/26/07, Stephen Joyce < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Yaakov Chaikin wrote: > > > > > > > On 10/25/07, dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > >> are you login in to the web interface with the admin password or your > own? > > > >> if it your own, you dont have that configured in the host file > > > >> > > > >>> host dhcp user moreUsers # <--- do > not > > > >> edit this line > > > >>> tbiqdev 0 yaakov > > > >>> yaakovlt 0 backup*** > > > >> > > > >> ***is the managing username. > > > > > > > > > > > > What do you mean by this? > > > > > > He means that hosts are associated with users. Only a user associated > with > > > a host may view that host (although the admin user may view all hosts). > > > > > > Since you have the host yaakovlt associated with user backup, only the > user > > > backup and any backuppc admin users will be able to view the host. Put > > > another way, if yaakov is not an admin in backuppc, then he should not > be > > > able to see host yaakovlt because it is not his host. > > > > > > Change the line above to > > > yaakovlt 0 yaakov > > > restart backuppc, and user yaakov should see both hosts. > > > > > > Cheers, Stephen > > > -- > > > Stephen Joyce > > > Systems Administrator > P A N I C > > > Physics & Astronomy Department > Physics & Astronomy > > > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Network > Infrastructure > > > voice: (919) 962-7214 > and Computing > > > fax: (919) 962-0480 > http://www.panic.unc.edu > > > > > > > > > >
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