2009/1/17 CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) <[email protected]>: > We have a security requirement (which is common with Linux) to prevent > ssh login for root (setting PermitRootLogin to no). One problem we > find, as system administrators, we like to use secure copy (remote file > copy program, scp) files between systems. However this will not work for > any root level files, since scp uses ssh to copy files over a network. > Does anyone have a suggested solution or better way around this issue? Still a kludge, but I commonly (if the files I want to grab are world-readable) ssh to the target machine, su and then copy them with scp -p u...@host:/path/to/file /path/to/file
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