Dave Howorth wrote: > Jim Flanagan wrote: > >> To follow up on this, what would be involved for an automated process to >> log in as root in this manner? >> > > Out of curiosity, when would this be necessary? What task cannot be done > by the local root - e.g. as a cron job - or by a specific userid created > for remote access? > > Cheers, Dave > As an example, for a while I was uploading web page changes remotely using scp over ssh. htdocs is root so I logged in a root. To keep things simple I didn't modify htdocs permissions to allow any other user to write. (At that time I had a router that I could administer remotely as well, so I would log into my router, open port 22 to my server, then ssh into the server as root to make the changes. After that session I would re-log into my router and close port 22 again. That router eventually failed and my current one does not allow remote admin, so I simply keep port 22 closed, but I'd like to have remote access again).
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