Ulf Volmer wrote:
Thanks for your response, which clarifies matters for me.
>> I have a couple of questions that this raises.
>> 1. Why exactly does backuppc want to ssh to root?
> To enable access to all of the files on the client.
>> Is this just a way of running BackupPC as root?
> Why do you want this? It's not required to run backuppc as user root.
I don't want (or not want) to do this.
I was asking the reason for ssh-ing from backuppc to root.
I don't recall any other application taking this route ?
>> 2. The graphical interface seems to be treated as an extra,
>> but what other way is there of accessing BackupPC?
>> Is there a CLI approach?
> There are some CLI applications available, BackupPC_tarCreate for
> example to restore file from the command line.
I take it then that there is no CLI method
of setting up and running BackupPC ?
Incidentally, I don't recall ever changing the user and group
under which BackupPC is to run when setting up BackupPC under CentOS-6.
Maybe this was done automatically during the CentOS installation
of this program?
(I certainly never used suexec explicitly.)
--
Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/ eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
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