On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:21:21AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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

"sudo -i" also works.

-Rob

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