Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login?

[Daniel Troeder <daniel@admin-box.com>]

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Am Dienstag, den 24.02.2009, 09:02 -0800 schrieb Michael Higgins:
> I can't figure this one out. 
> 
> Have disallowed root login, public key auth.
> 
> Have a bunch of random renaming to do on that machine though, so would like to point and click for a change.
> 
> Is this possible? No GUI libs on the remote machine...
> 
> I was thinking sshfs, but since I can't login directly as root, is there some other way?

Something like this might work:

# cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config /root/sshd_root_allow_config

Then edit /root/sshd_root_allow_config to allow root-login, to listen on
a port != 22 and to use another PID-file:
---
Port 222
PidFile /var/run/sshd_root_allow.pid
PermitRootLogin yes
---

Install app-admin/sudo and configure, that your login-user can execute
the following two commands (maybe only these!?!):
# sudo /usr/sbin/sshd -f /root/sshd_root_allow_config
# sudo kill $(cat /var/run/sshd_root_allow.pid)

Then you can use sshfs to port 222 between the two commands as root :)

Bye,
Daniel

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