Richard de Rivaz wrote:
> Hi Les
> 
> You suggest connecting as the backuppc user on the server to the root on the 
> target and I am slightly baffled as to how to do this on Ubuntu 9.04. 
> 'backuppc' does not appear on the list of users so I cannot log in as 
> backuppc, although it will not allow me to add a user backuppc as it says 
> there is one already. I wonder how you would suggest I test the connection as 
> I have the same problem as soume86.
> 
> Regards Richard

Try
sudo su -
  to become root
then
su -s /bin/bash backuppc
  to become the backuppc user even if it doesn't have a normal shell.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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