[BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-03 Thread RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN
Running BackupPC on FreeBSD 8.1 doing some troubleshooting, but cannot seem to get this command to work. Also cannot seem to login as backuppc user no shell and all that, please help usr/local/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f localhost /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_dump: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead

[BackupPC-users] FreeBSD port Broken?

2011-05-03 Thread RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN
Really having alot of problems getting PC backup to work with FreeBSD 8.1 have set things up on a ubuntu machine much easier Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root localhost env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /etc --totals --exclude=./tmp --exclude=./var/lib/backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/3/11 2:42 AM, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote: [c0mputerking@miako /usr/ports/shells/bash]# su -s /usr/local/bin/bash backuppc su: username too long Looks like the -s option doesn't work the same as in Linux. If there isn't another way to specify the shell to run, just give the backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] FreeBSD port Broken?

2011-05-03 Thread Michael Stowe
Really having alot of problems getting PC backup to work with FreeBSD 8.1 have set things up on a ubuntu machine much easier Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -n -l root localhost env LC_ALL=C /usr/bin/tar -c -v -f - -C /etc --totals --exclude=./tmp --exclude=./var/lib/backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-03 Thread Michael Stowe
Running BackupPC on FreeBSD 8.1 doing some troubleshooting, but cannot seem to get this command to work. Also cannot seem to login as backuppc user no shell and all that, please help usr/local/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f localhost /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_dump: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-03 Thread Michael Stowe
On 5/3/11 2:42 AM, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote: [c0mputerking@miako /usr/ports/shells/bash]# su -s /usr/local/bin/bash backuppc su: username too long Looks like the -s option doesn't work the same as in Linux. If there isn't another way to specify the shell to run, just give the backuppc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-03 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote at about 01:42:42 -0600 on Tuesday, May 3, 2011: Running BackupPC on FreeBSD 8.1 doing some troubleshooting, but cannot seem to get this command to work. Also cannot seem to login as backuppc user no shell and all that, please help

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/3/2011 12:11 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote at about 01:42:42 -0600 on Tuesday, May 3, 2011: Running BackupPC on FreeBSD 8.1 doing some troubleshooting, but cannot seem to get this command to work. Also cannot seem to login as backuppc user no shell and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-03 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
Les Mikesell wrote at about 12:26:04 -0500 on Tuesday, May 3, 2011: On 5/3/2011 12:11 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote at about 01:42:42 -0600 on Tuesday, May 3, 2011: Running BackupPC on FreeBSD 8.1 doing some troubleshooting, but cannot seem to get this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-03 Thread Timothy J Massey
Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote on 05/03/2011 01:43:54 PM: As (marginally) added security, I give my 'backuppc' /etc/passwd entry the shell '/sbin/nologin' -- which works with sudo but disallows simple 'su' login. So a real shell is not necessary... This is also the default

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/3/2011 2:50 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote: Jeffrey J. Kosowsky backu...@kosowsky.org wrote on 05/03/2011 01:43:54 PM: As (marginally) added security, I give my 'backuppc' /etc/passwd entry the shell '/sbin/nologin' -- which works with sudo but disallows simple 'su' login. So a real

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-03 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-05-03 15:14:08 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd]: I'm surprised that sudo doesn't honor the user's shell. really? It's really not surprising. The semantics of sudo is allow executing /exact/path/to/some/command as user X

Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

2011-05-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/3/2011 4:03 PM, Holger Parplies wrote: Hi, Les Mikesell wrote on 2011-05-03 15:14:08 -0500 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd]: I'm surprised that sudo doesn't honor the user's shell. really? It's really not surprising. The semantics of sudo is allow