Mar
31
2009
How to Sudo to Root with WinSCP
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
