Les Mikesell wrote at about 12:26:04 -0500 on Tuesday, May 3, 2011:
 > On 5/3/2011 12:11 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > > 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...
 > 
 > Even it it is, it should try to run the shell specified in the passwd 
 > file for the user. Apparently the way backuppc is installed it doesn't 
 > have a valid shell or a simple su would have worked.

As (marginally) added security, I give my 'backuppc' /etc/passwd entry
the shell '/sbin/nologin' -- which works with sudo but disallows
simple 'su' login. So a real shell is not necessary...

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