RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote at about 01:42:42 -0600 on Tuesday, May 3, 2011:
 > Running BackupPC on FreeBSD 8.1 doing some troubleshooting, but cannot seem 
 > to get this command to work. Also cannot seem to login as backuppc user no 
 > shell and all that, please help 
 > 
 > usr/local/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f localhost 
 > /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_dump: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 300 
 > (backuppc) 
 > Please su backuppc first 
 > BackupPC::Lib->new failed 
 > 

Personally, I use 'sudo' -- as in:
        sudo -u backuppc ....
Not sure though if sudo is a standard package with freebsd...

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