Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc and Ubuntu with Sudo

Hi Ed, looks like this will do the trick thanks but for some reason I'm now battling to get the SSH keys to work on Ubuntu for the backuppc account I created. Can you quickly run through the steps you would take to do this so I can see if I missed something? This is what I did (on the Ubuntu client machine):

# useradd -m backuppc # passwd backuppc # mkdir /home/backuppc/.ssh # touch /home/backuppc/.ssh/authorized_keys # Paste id_rsa.pub key from Backuppc Server into this authorized_keys file

>>From the Backuppc Server (to test): # ssh backuppc@ubuntuclient

Thanx so much for your help.
Jaco

On 21/06/2010 19:34, Ed McDonagh wrote:

Or better,
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html#how_can_client_access_as_root_be_avoided

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 12:19 -0500, Trey Nolen wrote:
Jaco wrote:
> Ok, so my Backuppc is running perfectly (on my Debian clients) but how 
> do I get Backuppc to backup my Ubuntu clients running sudo?  Can't get 
> SSH to login passwordless with the root account because of sudo...?  
> Your help highly appreciated!
>
>   
On your Ubuntu clients, just sudo -i to change to root, and then use the 
passwd command to give the root account a password.  That will unlock 
the account.  I recommend setting up your sshd so it only accepts keys 
and not passwords.


Trey Nolen


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