Claude Gélinas wrote:

> I'm trying to setup the backup of the localhost with backuppc. I already
> backup several other linux machine via ssh. I've setuped all them via
> running the following command as backuppc user:
> 
> ssh-keygen -t dsa
> cd .ssh
> ssh-copy-id -i id_dsa.pub root AT oligoextra.phyto.qc DOT ca

I would believe you must:
ssh-copy-id -i id_dsa.pub backuppc AT oligoextra.phyto.qc DOT ca
because you need the publich key in /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/authorized_keys
and not in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys

cat id_dsa.pub >> /var/lib/backuppc/.ssh/authorized_keys
should also do the job.

br
Matthias
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