From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lc3Iq-0000s1-GP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:50:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C9ADFE0575; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f175.google.com (mail-gx0-f175.google.com [209.85.217.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB67DE0575 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk23 with SMTP id 23so8002941gxk.10 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:50:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CTSCho50VOGrLl2y2w/J2ry8bq7NeOA2y7ZcuXVy5eg=; b=aS4obXjajDzcc+kKcY5VLqiFhu+BbkbnZBoSKlocI4wmcUjPXpCP+Yzrdc3Aoggagk eZbbaDDXVqE2S1e61gGaasEpr/uxC6HepHYkwIOVd9CicrWrJkPoMY2TQ1Z2pEYK4BRR zTS+T7H2QFa/2KkafbZTvSqz0KXmwxbZE4yG4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ROoRdniTjaRMBTUhby3DtPyJEiWZjW5Ww6JzGXZPIUW+lo0XY/h+MT/zkNiuGgWcPw zYleKgne4X5rQW7QRkXkjcEtHx4GUuZeBxLKCQwKNUiQeBFZnb2KNgQ+SJtCuUkVaJ4d IqpLwlQGKXQHbHNIkLXQS22hcBU6xO4PNp2VQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.38.12 with SMTP id q12mr49096ybj.113.1235505049447; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:50:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090224090242.40f2b26f@lappy.evolone.org> References: <20090224090242.40f2b26f@lappy.evolone.org> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:50:49 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5bc463ad69ac9451 Message-ID: <58965d8a0902241150s4d736a2dh232e1a4b540bca53@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6e08ee8f-9b2d-4e28-9f54-04fedcaebd82 X-Archives-Hash: 0964cc8f2726d65d98b367363f6292ec On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Michael Higgins 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.