On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Robert E. Wooden <rbrtewdn AT comcast DOT 
net> wrote:
> I have been using Backuppc for a few years now. Recently I upgraded my
> machine to newer, faster hardware. Hence, I have experience exchanging ssh
> keys, etc.
>
> It seems I have one client that refuses to connect via ssh. When I exchanged
> keys and ran "ssh -l root [clientip] whoami" the client properly returns
> 'root'. When I "sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/BackupPC_dump -v -f
> [clienthostname]" I get 'dump failed: Unable to read 4 bytes'.

Quick check... When you ran "ssh -l root [client ip] whoami", did you
run that as the backuppc user on the server or as root or another
user?

Richard

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