Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote:

>> Is there incidentally a simple test to determine
>> if ssh is working as required by BackupPC?
> 
> See if the BackupPC user can login on the client without entering a
> password.

Thanks for your comments, which are mostly helpful.

However, I think the above was slightly misleading.
I have BackupPC working perfectly on 4 computers (server + 3 clients),
but in no case can backuppc on the server 
ssh into any of the client machines
without being asked for a password;
and when asked for a password I cannot give one,
since backuppc does not have one.

I can ssh onto root on the client machines, eg with
        ssh -l root mary

> The public key of the backuppc user needs to be in the authorized_keys
> file of the user account on the client. Also see
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/ssh.html

That is what I found to be the essential point in getting BackupPC working.
Amazingly, it did not see to be stated clearly in any of the tutorials
I looked at.



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