Re: ssh as root

[Michael Smith <rybolov@authtrans.com>]

You can't connect to another box with ssh using the root account.  It's a
security feature.  The default is to use your current username, which would be
root in this instance.  A way to get around this is with the -l option and then
su on the remote box.
So, #ssh -l user_name_to_login_as remotehost
I don't use scp directly, but I use sftp, and it supports the -l option also.

"nate@firetrail.com" wrote:

> I'm curious if this is a bug or a config option or am i smoking crack. I
> have 2 identical (more or less) potato systems, and wanted to scp a tar
> file to the other machine. the command was:
>
> # scp /tmp/filename.tar admin@remote_host:/tmp
>
> I get
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> lost connection
>
> when i exit back out of the su, it connects fine. since i am not "logging
> in" as root i don't understand why it would(if it is) drop the
> connection. i checked the sshd_config and it looked ok ..i don't have
> identd running on either host, maybe SSH is telling the remote system what
> user i am? somehow i would think that would be bad if it was.
>
> or maybe my crackpipe needs cleaning ..
>
> any ideas??
>
> thanks!
>
> nate
>
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