rsync from Ubuntu to Ubuntu as root, possible?

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Thursday 12 July 2007 09:33:44 Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.

Actually, Debian's default is to allow ssh for root. Ubuntu incorporates it.

All the OP has to do, is enable a root password in the remote machine, and use 
sudo in the local machine.

regards
FF
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