I don't really have a good way to deal with this from a packaging perspective, I'll review the readme's and see if I can make it more clear.
You obviously created the apache.users files from root, the file needs to have the same owner and group as the other files (backuppc/apache). After that the usual attributes should work (644).
Thanks,
Richard
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