Ulf Volmer wrote:
Thanks for your response, which clarifies matters for me.
I have a couple of questions that this raises.
- 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 ?
- The graphical interface seems to be treated as an extra,
but what other way is there of accessing BackupPC? Is there a CLI approach?
There are some CLI applications available, BackupPC_tarCreate for example to restore file from the command line.
I take it then that there is no CLI method of setting up and running BackupPC ?
Incidentally, I don't recall ever changing the user and group under which BackupPC is to run when setting up BackupPC under CentOS-6. Maybe this was done automatically during the CentOS installation of this program? (I certainly never used suexec explicitly.)