From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:50:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0902241150s4d736a2dh232e1a4b540bca53@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090224090242.40f2b26f@lappy.evolone.org>
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Michael Higgins <linux@evolone.org> wrote:
> 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?
I believe you can make a key to associate with one command only. So
perhaps you can allow root login, but the only root key is one that
runs scp. Then you can scp as root but no actual login as root is
possible to "normal" ssh.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-24 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-24 17:02 [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login? Michael Higgins
2009-02-24 17:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-24 17:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2009-02-24 19:50 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2009-02-24 20:26 ` Daniel Troeder
2009-02-25 3:42 ` Mike Kazantsev
2009-02-25 8:50 ` Stroller
2009-02-25 17:13 ` Michael Higgins
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