Restarting radiusd remotly

[Dickon Newman]

Again, I've tried to search the archives without much luck.   I have multiple radius boxes (FreeBSD), and currently use rsync to update the users file (and others).  However, I need to restart radiusd to notice the changes in the files.  I can make a script that sends a kill -9 locally, but what about remotely?  Root cannot ssh, and normal users cannot send a kill -9 to a root process?   Has anyone else had this problem?   I understand that proxying may be a better approach, however, I have to work within certain constraints :-/   Dickon...