It has been about 7 years since I've been on the list. I decided to implement a comprehensive backup solution and chose backuppc. I also built a new mini-ITX PC for this use--Intel Core i3, 8 Gb RAM, 750 GB HDD, wired networking---and Debian Jesse for the software. To be fair, before I decided to build this computer, I installed Raspbian on my Raspberry Pi 2 and used that to test backuppc. All went well. (except backup times were horribly slow due to the design of the Pi).
So, I installed Jesse yesterday, made sure everything is up to date, and then installed the debian version of backuppc. All seemed to go well. I took note--wrote down--the backuppc user name and password. I tried to log in, but backuppc kept telling me that I had the wrong password. So, I followed the directions to change the password. That "seemed" to work, but when I log in, it wants to download a file, rather than log me in to the backuppc "console". I tried several times. Same result. I shut the PC down and started it back up, same result. Does anyone have an idea why this is happening and the steps that I need to go through to fix it? Many thanks, Mark