That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the fast response.
It has been forever since I have setup backuppc but on our current
servers we use "user root" but login to the backuppc web interface
with user backuppc. This user is able to see every host we have. So I
need to do some digging and remember how we setup authentication. But
it should be as easy as adding another user to whatever mechanism we
used and putting "user root More users newusername" on their hosts
corect?

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Chris Stone <axisml AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Donny,
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Kameleon <kameleon25 AT gmail DOT com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> We have one central backuppc server that we have been using for some
>> years now. In our agency we actually have another IT group that
>> handles a small subset of users. That groups backup server has crashed
>> and we are looking at adding them to our backuppc server. However we
>> do not want them to have access to our hosts and they need their own
>> login. We would just setup another backuppc server for them but we
>> want to utilize the de-duplication characteristics of backuppc to the
>> maximum, hence sharing our server with them. Is this possible?
>
>
> Sure you can - we do that here on 3 backup servers we run with BackupPC.
> Just add their login user names to the BackupPC hosts file for the hosts
> that login should have access to. For example, for the example hosts file:
>
> host                    dhcp    user    moreUsers     # <--- do not edit
> this line
> farside                0       craig   jill,jeff     # <--- example static
> IP host entry
> farside2              0       craig
>
> In this case, craig, jill and jeff would have access to the computer
> farside. No other users would have access to farside - nor would they even
> see that it's setup on the server. For farside2, only craig would have
> access - jill and jeff would not.
>
>
>
> Chris
>
>
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> AxisInternet, Inc.
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