Ulf Volmer wrote: Thanks for your response, which clarifies matters for me. >> I have a couple of questions that this raises. >> 1. 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 ? >> 2. 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.) -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin