waverider wrote:
> Thanks Tyler,
> [quote="Tyler J. Wagner"]On Sunday 15 Aug 2010 06:58:11 waverider wrote:
> 
>> As I said above ssh and rsync work and provide passless connection so the
>> problem must be in Backuppc config somewhere
>>
> 
> 
>> What is the format of the external drive? If the drive hosts the backuppc 
>> user's home directory, make sure that .ssh and its contents have the right 
>> permissions.
> 
> 
> The external drive is ext3 and permissions are OK as I can save to it from 
> the remote device using rsync
> 
>> Just to be clear, make sure that you have tested SSH as the backuppc user, 
>> not 
>> root:
>>
>> su - backuppc
>> ssh root < at > 192.168.72.11
>>
> 
> Ahh -herein lies the problem. Thanks! At least that is clear now.  
> 
> I can rsync OK from my login but not when logged in as backuppc - it asks for 
> the password.  However, I am using ubuntu and backuppc is a system user, so 
> doesn't have a home directory - so where do I generate keys? Or can I somehow 
> use the existing keys (which work under my login) for the backuppc user?

Backuppc should have a home directory, but may not have a login shell for su. 
When running as root, try 'su -l -s /bin/bash backuppc'.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com





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