Good point..but maybe copy the files to a less secure location and then scp
as user?

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:44 AM, chris (fool) mccraw <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:42, Aaron <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't know if I'd suggest ssh'ing to the box -as- root. That seems like
> a
> > bad idea. su - or sudo should do it...
>
> depends.  if he's really trying to 'transfer files' as he said,
> there's no way to su inside of sftp/scp.
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