Re: sftp as root

2009-08-17 Thread Warren Michelsen
At 3:56 PM +1000 8/17/09, Charlie Garrison sent email regarding Re: sftp as root: Good afternoon, On 16/08/09 at 9:24 AM -0700, Warren Michelsen wmichel...@gmail.com wrote: Charlie, are you saying you were able to sftp as root with no password and it worked? ... I can connect via sftp using

Re: sftp as root

2009-08-16 Thread Warren Michelsen
At 6:00 PM +1000 7/16/09, Charlie Garrison sent email regarding Re: sftp as root: Good afternoon, On 16/07/09 at 12:49 AM -0700, Warren Michelsen wmichel...@gmail.com wrote: How do I get BBEdit to use sftp as the root user with no password? Enter 'root' for username, and leave password blank

Re: sftp as root

2009-08-16 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 16/08/09 at 9:24 AM -0700, Warren Michelsen wmichel...@gmail.com wrote: Charlie, are you saying you were able to sftp as root with no password and it worked? I can do it as other than root, but not as root. Did you do it as root? I can connect via sftp using BBEdit

Re: sftp as root

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Nelson
I'm having the same issue as well with 9.2.1. Any progress on an answer? Thanks, Steve On Jul 20, 7:33 am, Patrick Woolsey pwool...@barebones.com wrote: you wrote: [...] What app version are you running? version 9.2.1 (2532) of Fri, 19 Jun 2009 OK, thanks. I do not have this problem

Re: sftp as root

2009-07-20 Thread Patrick Woolsey
you wrote: [...] What app version are you running? version 9.2.1 (2532) of Fri, 19 Jun 2009 OK, thanks. I do not have this problem with a non-root account that also uses public key authentication. root seems to behave differently or be a special case. Yes, I can ssh as root to the host in

Re: sftp as root

2009-07-19 Thread Warren Michelsen
At 5:17 PM -0400 7/16/09, Patrick Woolsey sent email regarding Re: sftp as root: you wrote: [...] After I click the connect button, BBEdit says: Opening sftp connection and puts up an additional password dialog. Entering the password does not log me in. What app version are you running

sftp as root

2009-07-16 Thread Warren Michelsen
(passwordless via RSA keys) and then su to root, if needed. I'd like to be able to use BBEdit instead of Terminal and pico. So I've set the server to allow passwordless log-in by root using a key. How do I get BBEdit to use sftp as the root user with no password? Or is sftp the wrong mechanism

Re: sftp as root

2009-07-16 Thread Charlie Garrison
work from BBEdit. How do I get BBEdit to use sftp as the root user with no password? Enter 'root' for username, and leave password blank. I don't use BBEdit for sftp but I was curious if use of ssh keys was automatic. I tested it now and it just worked (as expected). Or is sftp the wrong mechanism

Re: sftp as root

2009-07-16 Thread Warren Michelsen
At 6:00 PM +1000 7/16/09, Charlie Garrison sent email regarding Re: sftp as root: Good afternoon, On 16/07/09 at 12:49 AM -0700, Warren Michelsen So I've set the server to allow passwordless log-in by root using a key. Have you tested that from command line? If it works there it should work

Re: sftp as root

2009-07-16 Thread Patrick Woolsey
you wrote: [...] After I click the connect button, BBEdit says: Opening sftp connection and puts up an additional password dialog. Entering the password does not log me in. What app version are you running? (In particular, if you have BBEdit 9 prior to 9.2.1, please update. :-) Regards,