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

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

---- Chris Bullock <cgbullock at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> The topic securely and accurately transmitting passwords brought this to
> my attention.  We have some servers that have root owned files that we
> occasionally need to scp to another server.  Our problem is that when
> using sudo it still ask for the root password on the remote server.  
> Is there a way around this?

Setup login via key exchange.
http://www.trilug.org/~jonc/ssh_setup/automated.txt

I generally setup a cron job for moving around root files that need to be pushed around nightly (or weekly [or monthly]). 

Jon (say it with cron) Carnes