[BackupPC-users] ssh from an account without a shell

Hi all, I've tried looking in a couple of places, but I can't find the answer to this. I have essentially used this webpage to install and configure backuppc 4.1.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki/Installing-BackupPC-4-from-git-on-Ubuntu-Xenial-16.04-LTS I then

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh from an account without a shell

To run a shell as the backuppc user, do something like this: su -s /bin/bash backuppc Robert Trevellyan On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I’ve tried looking in a couple of places, but I can’t find

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh from an account without a shell

Hi Robert, Thanks for that. I’ve just tried it and (I should have already guessed this!), it gave the same error message as BackupPC reported ☺ Any ideas what I may be doing wrong? Thanks, Phil From: Robert Trevellyan [mailto:robert.trevell...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 February 2018 14:33 To:

Re: [BackupPC-users] ssh from an account without a shell

Hi Phil, are you sure that the correct SSH key is used for the connection? You mentioned that the command works as root, so I assume that the SSH key that you authorized for connecting to the client is root's rather than backuppc's. (Crucial line: "Permission denied