Remote root ssh

[Scott Lockwood]

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 08:15 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> fletcher johnson wrote:
> > Hello, I'm trying to ssh remotely into my ubuntu box as root and 
> > transfer files. How can I do this without enabling root (Let's use sudo 
> > only)?
> > Basically something like this. scp 
> > user at 192.168.1.103:/home/user/somefile_with_root_perms .
> > Thanks!
> you append your SSH public-key into /root/.ssh/authorized_keys.  Now you can 
> login as root but using the authentication of SSH. copy looks like
> scp root at 192.168.1.103:/home/user/somefile_with_root_perms .

Root also must be allowed to login remotely via ssh - which is a really,
really bad idea.


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Regards,
Scott Lockwood