rsync from Ubuntu to Ubuntu as root, possible?

[Derek Broughton]

Fajar Priyanto wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm new to Ubuntu, and I'm aware that it's root account is not active and
> that we should use sudo. But, I need to do an rsync from Ubuntu to Ubuntu
> as root. Is it possible, or should I activate the root account?
> Example:
> sudo rsync -e ssh root at 10.0.0.19:/var/lib/samba /var/lib/samba

It's hard to imagine the case where you would "need" to use root for an
rsync.  Generally speaking, we don't allow root to use ssh.

How about using NFS to mount the remote /var/lib/samba?
-- 
derek