Leandro Tracchia wrote:

> i CAN ssh into the client with the backuppc user from the backuppc
> server. to log into the client i need to supply the root password. how
> does backuppc know what the root password is to log in??? i never
> specified the root password in config.pl. is this something rsync
> takes care of???

Standard procedure is to use public key authentication (without a  
passphrase) instead of password authentication. See the docs: 
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html

Nils Breunese.

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