James, I normally use a combination of ssh, sudo and tar to copy files with root authorization from one system to the other:
cd ${sourcedir}
sudo tar -cp ${files} | ssh ${targetsys} sudo tar -C ${targetdir}
-xpv
Ronald van der Laan
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