On 9/13/2015 7:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> 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 ? > its using ssh to run rsync on the backup target... it uses root so that rsync can access all files. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz