Hi,

I receive the following error msg in Apache error log when trying to
access my BackupPC:

Permission denied: Could not open password file:
/var/lib/backuppc/passwd/htpasswd, referer:
http://localhost/backuppc/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=editConfig
access to /backuppc/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin failed, reason:
verification of user id 'admin' not configured, referer:
http://localhost/backuppc/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin?action=editConfig

I am trying to browse backups transferred from another server with my
local server:

I copied with rsync -avzH the TopDir from another server to my local
BackupPC server on a USB disk (/mnt/usb/backuppc)

I did chown -R backuppc.backuppc /mnt/usb/backuppc

I then moved my local BackupPC's TopDir from /var/lib/backuppc to
/var/lib/backuppc.local

And then mounted the new data to TopDir with mount --bind
/mnt/usb/backuppc /var/lib/backuppc

I copied the passwd/htpasswd dir/file from my old TopDir to this newly
mounted TopDir

The permissions should be very permissive:

drwxrwxrwx 2 backuppc backuppc 4.0K Nov  8 16:05 /var/lib/backuppc/passwd/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 backuppc backuppc 41 Nov 13 00:23 /var/lib/backuppc/passwd/htpasswd

Apache is run as the backuppc user, so I am a bit puzzled why it
cannot access the htpasswd file?

If I remount the old TopDir (backuppc.local), everything works fine
the dir/file having these permissions:

drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 4.0K Nov  8 16:05 /var/lib/backuppc/passwd/
-rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc 21 Nov  8 16:18 /var/lib/backuppc/passwd/htpasswd

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Regards,
Peter

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