On 2017-03-26 09:46, Les Mikesell wrote:

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 8:57 AM, 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?

The backuppc user may not have a shell set in the passwd file to
prevent direct logins.   You can still
 "su -s /bin/bash - backuppc"   or "sudo su -s /bin/bash - backuppc"
if that is the case.

Thanks, Les. (Also thanks, Raoul for same answer.) You were both right on.

Excellent!!

Bob Wooden of Donelson Trophy