Re: [BackupPC-users] problems with linux host - Unable to read 4 bytes

[Nick S. <nic...@gm...>]

>> >
>
> It should not change anything, since the BackupPC dæmon is launched by root.
>  However, most installations intentionally do not create a password for the
> backuppc user for security reasons.  From root, running su -s /bin/bash
> backuppc should switch to that user without having to change anything.
> Regarding your SSH key problem, what is the output when you run the
> following?
> root@host# sudo -u backuppc ssh root@target
> Does it ask anything?  If it fails, what is the message it returns?
>

>From the backuppc server to the client1 it logs in without a password.

>From the backuppc server to the client2 it asks for a password.

>From the client1 to the backuppc server it asks for a password

>From the client2 to the backuppc server i get this error:
# sudo -u backuppc ssh -p 22252 root@backup-server
sudo: no passwd entry for backuppc!

Which is where i tried to add the backuppc user to the client machine
to see if that was the problem.

If i understand correctly the client is acting as the ssh server?