On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:40:47 -0500 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > On 01/10/2007, Paulo Cavalcanti <promac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Since Fedora ships it with the user backuppc associated to the > >>> nologin, one has to set the ssh keys somehow, maybe changing the > >>> backuppc user to an ordinary login shell (bash), setting > >>> everything and then setting it back to nologin. > >>> > > > > You should file a bug report about this - the packager should > > arrange for the creation of the needed ssh keys on installation if > > that is necessary for BackupPC. > > I haven't installed this packaged version but I'd expect to be able > to run as the backuppc user if you start as root and: > > su -s /bin/bash - backuppc > I installed this under Ubuntu Server - it too uses backuppc. Perhaps the Op installed via a source tarball. -- Best regards, Chris Registerd Linux user number 448639
