[TriLUG] SCPing root owned files from servers that disallow root login

[Cristóbal Palmer]

On 10/4/07, Chris Bullock <cgbullock at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [cgb at server1 :/home/cgb]$ sudo scp -P 22222 server2:/etc/file.conf .

I'm confused. Is the file /etc/file.conf on server2 only readable by root?

Why not something like this:

sudo scp -P 22222 someuser at server2:/etc/file.conf

and set perms so 'someuser' can read/write the file.

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