On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:46, Nick Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > > > > > 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? > > > > >From the backuppc server to the client1 it logs in without a password. > > >From the backuppc server to the client2 it asks for a password. > > >From the client1 to the backuppc server it asks for a password > > >From the client2 to the backuppc server i get this error: > # sudo -u backuppc ssh -p 22252 r...@backup-server > sudo: no passwd entry for backuppc! > > Which is where i tried to add the backuppc user to the client machine > to see if that was the problem. > > If i understand correctly the client is acting as the ssh server? > No, the server is trying to connect to the client, as it's the client. There shouldn't be a backuppc user on the client. You want the BackupPC server to connect to the client as root. -- [EOM]
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