Hi Les
Many thanks for your help.
I was able to login as backuppc user and then set up the keys and backup at
last!!
Regards Richard
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Richard de Rivaz wrote:
> > Hi Les
> >
> > You suggest connecting as the backuppc user on the server to the root on
> > the target and I am slightly baffled as to how to do this on Ubuntu 9.04.
> > 'backuppc' does not appear on the list of users so I cannot log in as
> > backuppc, although it will not allow me to add a user backuppc as it says
> > there is one already. I wonder how you would suggest I test the connection
> > as I have the same problem as soume86.
> >
> > Regards Richard
>
> Try
> sudo su -
> to become root
> then
> su -s /bin/bash backuppc
> to become the backuppc user even if it doesn't have a normal shell.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>
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