13 Sep
2015
13 Sep
'15
6:14 p.m.
On 9/13/2015 7:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
- 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.
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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz