BackupPC's README file for Fedora & EPEL ## BackupPC's user For security reasons, backuppc user cannot log in. If you want to start manual backup (ie for debugging), you'll need to set it a shell : Permanent: usermod -s /bin/bash backuppc or Temporary: su -s /bin/bash -l backuppc Do not forget to create an SSH key (ssk-keygen) as the backuppc user and copy it to remote computers if you plan to use tar/rsync over SSH backup method. The easiest way to do this (after logging in as the backuppc user) is to use ssh-copy-id ssh-copy-id <user>@<host> ## BackupPC's web interface The CGI web interface is located at : http://localhost/BackupPC You will need to create users in /etc/BackupPC/apache.users : htpasswd /etc/BackupPC/apache.users <username> Once complete, add that user as an admin in config.pl: $Conf{BackupPCUser} = '<username>'