On 2017-03-26 09:46, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Bob of Donelson Trophy
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have been experimenting with the script originally submitted by Johan
>> Ehnberg (thank you, BTW) to build on a VM (Virtualbox).
>>
>> As BackupPC has been updated to 4.1.0 and the script (I believe) pulls the
>> latest from github I have rerun the script to test the newer BackupPC
>> version.
>>
>> With each VM (version 4.0.0 and now 4.1.0?) I am unable to access the "su -
>> backuppc" via commandline in order to "ssh-copy-id" keys to the clients. Any
>> attempt to "su - backuppc" simply returns to the 'root' user prompt as
>> opposed to the 'backuppc' "$" prompt. I have even backed out of the 'root'
>> user to the admin user and tried "sudo su - backuppc" with the same result,
>> a return to the admin user prompt.
>>
>> Is there a different way I am to backuppc user login to "ssh-copy-id" with
>> the newer BackupPC 4 version?
>>
>> Is the script not being processed properly the backuppc user account
>> creation?
>
> The backuppc user may not have a shell set in the passwd file to
> prevent direct logins. You can still
> "su -s /bin/bash - backuppc" or "sudo su -s /bin/bash - backuppc"
> if that is the case.
Thanks, Les. (Also thanks, Raoul for same answer.) You were both right
on.
Excellent!!
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