[Box Backup] Boxbackup user

Chris Wilson boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Thu Feb 21 08:45:42 GMT 2008


Hi Timothy,

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> I was wondering, is boxbackup hardcoded to use the _bbstored user? I've 
> searched on the wiki, but can't find anything about this. I know that 
> the port is hard coded, so maybe the user is too. The reason is my 
> distribution doesn't seem to like the _ at the beginning. I could force 
> it, but I don't want to break anything else.
>
> I'm asking this because I'm getting the raidfile 8/2 error, which is 
> permissions error. But if I su to my bbstored user, I can touch files 
> and make dirs, in the directory specified in my raidfile, so I'm sure 
> it's not a permissions error. Unless it needs access to other things 
> too?
>
> Changing the User option to root works, but I would prefer not to run
> with these permissions.

The user is not hardcoded. It's stored in the User option in 
bbstored.conf, as you saw.

What file do you get the raidfile 8/2 error on?

Cheers, Chris.
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