How to Sudo to Root with WinSCP
- March 31st, 2009
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I’ve put together a quick video to show how to setup winscp so that you can log into a Linux server and change to the root user. This is the GUI equivelent of doing a ‘sudo -s’, ‘sudo su -’, or ‘su -’ as a wheel user if you’ve setup your SSHD service to deny direct root log ins by setting ‘PermitRootLogin’ to ‘no’. Every so often I will have a developer ask for escalated privileges through a GUI and this is a nice alternative in lieu of cheaply enabling root access.
While the WinSCP documentation does explains how to do this I’m hoping the video will help make setting this up a little bit easier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gozMvgsomb0
Thanks,
I haven’t cracked this yet, but this is a good start.
BTW,
your link to the video is wrong.
Looks like a simple typo. Oughta be:
?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gozMvgsomb0
Thanks for pointing out the broken link. I didn’t catch that. :/
Thx for this toturial! It’s very helpful.
And what’s the command line like that you use to launch firefox, winscp in the video?
@hSATAC, that would be launchy. http://www.launchy.net/