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[BackupPC-users] BackupPC newbie: a couple more questions

2008-12-24 14:29:52
Subject: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC newbie: a couple more questions
From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard AT eircom DOT net>
To: BackupPC mailing list <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:11:30 +0000
1. I have been looking at various BackupPC HOWTOs and tutorials.
I see that the "Falko" tutorial at <http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_backuppc>
recommends (on page 3) that one should enter one's username, 
"falko" in this case, as the user in /etc/BackupPC/hosts .

Other tutorials suggest one should use the user "backuppc",
who was indeed created by "yum install BackupPC".

2. This tutorial suggests at one point that when exchanging SSH keys
one should login to the BackupPC server as backuppc .
"Yum install BackupPC" did indeed create a user backuppc on the server,
but the entry in /etc/passwd reads
        backuppc:x:101:104::/var/lib/BackupPC:/sbin/nologin
Should this be altered?

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland


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