Hi Bob,

I suppose there is an "invalid" login shell i.e. /bin/false configured for the 
backuppc user.
Try specifying the shell, like "su - backuppc -s /bin/sh"

Cheers,
Raoul

On March 26, 2017 3:57:50 PM GMT+02:00, Bob of Donelson Trophy <bob AT 
donelsontrophy DOT net> wrote:
>I have been experimenting with the script originally submitted by Johan
>Ehnberg (thank you, BTW) to build on a VM (Virtualbox). 
>
>As BackupPC has been updated to 4.1.0 and the script (I believe) pulls
>the latest from github I have rerun the script to test the newer
>BackupPC version. 
>
>With each VM (version 4.0.0 and now 4.1.0?) I am unable to access the
>"su - backuppc" via commandline in order to "ssh-copy-id" keys to the
>clients. Any attempt to "su - backuppc" simply returns to the 'root'
>user prompt as opposed to the 'backuppc' "$" prompt. I have even backed
>out of the 'root' user to the admin user and tried "sudo su - backuppc"
>with the same result, a return to the admin user prompt. 
>
>Is there a different way I am to backuppc user login to "ssh-copy-id"
>with the newer BackupPC 4 version? 
>
>Is the script not being processed properly the backuppc user account
>creation? 


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DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc.
E-Mail. raoul AT bhatia DOT at
Tel. +43 699 10132530

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