BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup fails over rsync

2010-08-15 07:53:29
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup fails over rsync
From: Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:51:22 -0500
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 6:40 AM, waverider
<backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
> I can rsync OK from my login but not when logged in as backuppc - it asks for 
> the password.  However, I am using ubuntu and backuppc is a system user, so 
> doesn't have a home directory - so where do I generate keys? Or can I somehow 
> use the existing keys (which work under my login) for the backuppc user?

Are you sure the backuppc user does not have a home directory? I'm not
sure about ubuntu but on my Fedora system the home dir is
"/var/lib/BackupPC" so that's where my .ssh resides.

Richard

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