Re: [BackupPC-users] Not able to use the backuppc account in freebsd

[Jeffrey J. K. <bac...@ko...>]

RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote at about 01:42:42 -0600 on Tuesday, May 3, 2011:
 > Running BackupPC on FreeBSD 8.1 doing some troubleshooting, but cannot seem to get this command to work. Also cannot seem to login as backuppc user no shell and all that, please help 
 > 
 > usr/local/bin/BackupPC_dump -v -f localhost 
 > /usr/local/bin/BackupPC_dump: Wrong user: my userid is 0, instead of 300 (backuppc) 
 > Please su backuppc first 
 > BackupPC::Lib->new failed 
 > 

Personally, I use 'sudo' -- as in:
	sudo -u backuppc ....
Not sure though if sudo is a standard package with freebsd...