--- src/BackupPC-3.2.0beta1/configure.pl
+++ configure.pl
@@ -327,25 +327,8 @@
 
 EOF
 my($name, $passwd, $Uid, $Gid);
-while ( 1 ) {
-    $Conf{BackupPCUser} = prompt("--> BackupPC should run as user",
-                                 $Conf{BackupPCUser} || "backuppc",
-                                 "backuppc-user");
-    if ( $opts{"set-perms"} ) {
         ($name, $passwd, $Uid, $Gid) = getpwnam($Conf{BackupPCUser});
-        last if ( $name ne "" );
-        print <<EOF;
 
-getpwnam() says that user $Conf{BackupPCUser} doesn't exist.  Please
-check the name and verify that this user is in the passwd file.
-
-EOF
-        exit(1) if ( $opts{batch} );
-    } else {
-        last;
-    }
-}
-
 print <<EOF;
 
 Please specify an install directory for BackupPC.  This is where the
@@ -532,12 +515,6 @@
 		 ) ) {
     next if ( -d "$DestDir$Conf{InstallDir}/$dir" );
     mkpath("$DestDir$Conf{InstallDir}/$dir", 0, 0755);
-    if ( !-d "$DestDir$Conf{InstallDir}/$dir"
-            || !my_chown($Uid, $Gid, "$DestDir$Conf{InstallDir}/$dir") ) {
-        die("Failed to create or chown $DestDir$Conf{InstallDir}/$dir\n");
-    } else {
-        print("Created $DestDir$Conf{InstallDir}/$dir\n");
-    }
 }
 
 #
@@ -546,11 +523,6 @@
 foreach my $dir ( ($Conf{CgiImageDir}) ) {
     next if ( $dir eq "" || -d "$DestDir$dir" );
     mkpath("$DestDir$dir", 0, 0755);
-    if ( !-d "$DestDir$dir" || !my_chown($Uid, $Gid, "$DestDir$dir") ) {
-        die("Failed to create or chown $DestDir$dir");
-    } else {
-        print("Created $DestDir$dir\n");
-    }
 }
 
 #
@@ -566,12 +538,6 @@
             "$Conf{LogDir}",
         ) ) {
     mkpath("$DestDir$dir", 0, 0750) if ( !-d "$DestDir$dir" );
-    if ( !-d "$DestDir$dir"
-            || !my_chown($Uid, $Gid, "$DestDir$dir") ) {
-        die("Failed to create or chown $DestDir$dir\n");
-    } else {
-        print("Created $DestDir$dir\n");
-    }
 }
 
 printf("Installing binaries in $DestDir$Conf{InstallDir}/bin\n");