dan wrote:

> did you create the user backuppc?  if so, does backuppc have a home  
> directory and does it have a default shell of /bin/bash?

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item_backuppc_user  
says:

----
For security purposes you might choose to configure the BackupPC user  
with the shell set to /bin/false. Since you might need to run some  
BackupPC programs as the BackupPC user for testing purposes, you can  
use the -s option to su to explicitly run a shell, eg:

     su -s /bin/bash __BACKUPPCUSER__
----

Nils Breunese.

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