openssh - run as another user

[Wout Mertens]

If you use tar instead it's reasonably easy:

ssh desthost -t sudo tar cf - srcfile | tar xvf -

untested.

Wout.

On Aug 27, 2010, at 16:13 , Jeremy Nickurak wrote:

> Any thoughts on how to get away with doing this with scp, in particular?
> 
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 20:23, Matthew Monaco <dgbaley27 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/26/2010 10:39 PM, Coy Hile wrote:
>> 
>>> Use sudo a la
>>> 
>>> ssh desthost sudo /some/command
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> ssh desthost -t sudo /some/command
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: openssh-unix-dev-bounces+coy.hile=coyhile.com at mindrot.org [mailto:
>>> openssh-unix-dev-bounces+coy.hile <openssh-unix-dev-bounces%2Bcoy.hile>=
>>> coyhile.com at mindrot.org] On Behalf Of Phillip Wu
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 7:37 PM
>>> To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
>>> Subject: openssh - run as another user
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>>> For security, many systems are configured so you cannot log directly as
>>> root via the initial authentication in openssh.
>>> 
>>> What is usually done is that you log onto as your normal login and once
>>> you get a interactive shell you su to root to
>>> run the command that requires root.
>>> 
>>> Does openssh have a more elegant way of exec'ing a command as root so I
>>> can run the command
>>> non-interactively?  I know:
>>> Normal userid
>>> Normal userid password
>>> Root's password
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