At 11:38 AM -0700 7/21/07, Warren Michelsen wrote:
When connecting to my server via sftp (which I assume is ssh), is
there a way, after connecting, to 'sudo su' so as to escalate my
privileges before opening and editing conf files and such?
For security reasons, the root account is disabled. When connecting
via ssh, if I need more privileges than the account through which I
log in, I use 'sudo su'.
An sftp client can't do this, as it's not part of the sftp
protocol. A better option would be to use a private/public keypair
for access to the root account ("PermitRootLogin without-password" in
/etc/sshd_config), so people cannot break into root by trying random
passwords, but you can get access with the private key.
Chris
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