Remote root ssh

[ruscook]

Why not log in as a normal user and use "sudo -i" to turn it into a root 
shell as needed?

Brian McKee wrote:
> On 28/06/07, Scott Lockwood <scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> If it's by key only (not by password) it's not so bad...
>
>   

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