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Kenneth L. Owen wrote:
> On this path, my next step is to set up ssh-keys for BackupPC. 
> Remember, that I am a novice in Linux.  I have instructions for creating
> the keys but find a discrepancy between the instructions (written for
> Debian) and the Fedora setup.  When creating keys on the archive unit
> running BackupPC, the instructions say to be logged in as user backuppc.
>  Fedora 8 came with BackupPC installed and almost setup to run with
> directories, file permissions and a user (backuppc) in existence but set
> for no logon.  Do I instead work as root?  -- ken

You should login as root, and then use:
su - backuppc
This will "switch" to the backuppc user even if the user doesn't have
any password set.
If that doesn't work try this:
grep backuppc /etc/passwd
If the very end of the line doesn't refer to /bin/bash or /bin/sh or
something similar (ie, it is blank or it points to /bin/false or
/bin/nologin) then do this:
chsh backuppc
and enter "/bin/bash"
Then you should be able to "su - backuppc"

Hope this helps.

BTW, Debian and Ubuntu LTS both have quite long term maintenance, are
free, and also are quite popular and so fairly easy to get support. I'm
not entirely sure, but I imagine redhat (Fedora/etc) still have a pretty
strong following as well. So, at the end of the day, choose what you are
most comfortable with, or can get the most help with (ie, if you know
someone who uses one or the other, then use what they use, so they can
help you more :).

Regards,
Adam
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