On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 13:40, Nick Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone know if i can change the password to the backuppc user in linux > and not have any adverse effects with the backuppc system? > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Nick Smith<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Matthias Meyer<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Nick Smith wrote: > >>> > >>> Ok, new problem, i cant get the backuppc user to work with shared keys. > >>> Ive added the /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/id_rsa.pub contents to the other > >>> linux box's > >> in /root/.ssh I assume. > > > > yes into authorized_keys and _keys2 which ever one it decides to use. > >> > > > >> The password for user backuppc in the web interface can differ from the > >> password for the linux user. > >> apache compare the password against the htpasswd or htdigest file. > >> Linux, on the other hand, compare it against the /etc/passwd. > >>> > > > > If I dont know the backuppc user password, is it safe to change it > > something else? > > Ot will this screw up some other internal workings of backuppc? > > > > thanks for the help > > > It *should *not change anything, since the BackupPC dæmon is launched by root. However, most installations intentionally do not create a password for the backuppc user for security reasons. From root, running *su -s /bin/bash backuppc* should switch to that user without having to change anything. Regarding your SSH key problem, what is the output when you run the following? * * r...@host# *sudo -u backuppc ssh r...@target* Does it ask anything? If it fails, what is the message it returns? -- [EOM]
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