Sorry. Indeed, you have to create a backuppc user with /home/backuppc as
home in your clients, and in your server if you don't have one yet.
Then generate keys for your server backuppc user:
backuppc$> ssh-keygen -t rsa
use ssh-copy-id to copy the pub key to each of the clients
backuppc$>ssh-copy-id 192.168.1.106
You don't need to create a BackupPC_id_rsa.pub, you'll use the generated pub
key of the server backuppc user.
You may use /var/lib/backuppc as home, or other, by I prefer the former.
Luis
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Kenneth L. Owen <tx836...@bellsouth.net>wrote:
> Hi users,
>
> I've been thinking about the response to
> ssh -l root 192.168.1.101 whoami
> with response of 'root'.
>
Why? Were you expecting another answer?
>
> When I create the BackupPC key for the visudo method, to where should
> BackupPC_id_rsa.pub be copied? If I put it in /root/.ssh, is that not
> asking for phraseless root access?
>
> I looked at man ssh and it appears that the BackupPC_id_rsa.pub key
> should reside in /home/backuppc/.ssh on the clent. The machine that I
> am trying to connect says that user backuppc exists, but it does not
> show in System/Administration/Users and Groups, but there is a group
> named backuppc listed, but no members assigned.
>
> Several years ago, when I started looking for backup software, I
> actually installed the BackupPC software on the client machine to study
> the application and setup files. Later, when I was ready to implement,
> I purged the software from this machine and installed it on the new
> server that would be hosting my archive. The backuppc user and group
> are left from the original install. User backuppc has no home on the
> client machine and therefore no /home/backuppc/.ssh directory.
>
> If I need a /home/backuppc/.ssh directory, how can I fix this? I can't
> see the backuppc user in the GUI Users and Groups application. It won't
> let me delete the backuppc group. -- ken
>
> Right. Create the user. No need to delete the group, I think.
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 18:41 -0400, Kenneth L. Owen wrote:
> > Problem with converting to visudo method keys
>
>
>
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