On 9/13/2015 7:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
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 ?
its using ssh to run rsync on the backup target... it uses root so
that rsync can access all files.
--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
