Re: [BackupPC-users] Error starting a backup

[Yaakov C. <yaa...@gm...>]

With all these side (albeit important) security issues, I never got an
answer to my question. Why am I am getting a Permission Denied error
and what am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Yaakov.

On 7/18/07, Rob Owens <ro...@bi...> wrote:
> I believe you can look in the XferLog in the web interface to see the
> command that BackupPC attempted to run.
>
> I know a bit about ssh and security, but I'm relatively new to
> BackupPC.  I've only been using it about 2 weeks.
>
> -Rob
>
> Yaakov Chaikin wrote:
> > I am not really sure how to set this up. Does BackupPC start its own
> > process with whatever user I specify in config.pl? If so, then I can
> > see how this can be done, i.e., by simply specifying 'backuppc' as the
> > user in config.pl (I think there is a place in there to do this,
> > right? I don't have that file in front of me at the moment.) However,
> > if BackupPC does not start its own process under the specified in
> > config.pl user, then I am not sure how to set this up.
> >
> > Any help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yaakov.
> >
> > On 7/18/07, Rob Owens <ro...@bi...> wrote:
> >> You want /data/BackupPC to be owned by user "backuppc".  You shouldn't
> >> be allowing user "apache" to do anything besides run the webserver.
> >> User "apache" should not be allowed to log in as root.  User "backuppc"
> >> should be allowed to log into the host machines as root (assuming you're
> >> using rsync as your transport).
> >>
> >> -Rob
> >>
> >> Yaakov Chaikin wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I am running BackupPC 3.0 and having trouble getting it to back up. So
> >> > far, I am just running a test back up on the machine that hosts the
> >> > BackupPC.
> >> >
> >> > Here is the error log that I am getting when I click "Start Full
> >> Backup":
> >> > **************************************
> >> > 2007-07-17 22:26:26 User yaakov requested backup of tbiqdev (tbiqdev)
> >> > 2007-07-17 22:26:26 tbiqdev: mkdir /data/BackupPC: Permission denied
> >> > at //usr/share/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_dump line 193
> >> > **************************************
> >> >
> >> > The /data/BackupPC is directory where I specified I wanted the backups
> >> > to be stored. It's owned by the apache user since this is the user
> >> > that runs the 'httpd' server.
> >> >
> >> > What am I doing wrong?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Yaakov.
> >> >
> >> > P.S. I followed the instructions and set up ssh key sharing. So, now
> >> > the user apache can log in as root without providing a password. I
> >> > don't know if this has anything to do with that since the client and
> >> > server is the same machine, but I figured I'd mention it.
> >> >
> >> >
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