Root access over ssh?
Wayne Davison
wayned at samba.org
Fri Mar 26 19:38:39 GMT 2004
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:30:48PM -0500, Paul Galbraith wrote:
> My impression is that when run as a server over a remote ssh
> connection, rsync is being started up as a process under the ssh user's
> account, instead of connecting to the root rsync server that I've got
> running out of inetd.
That's correct. If you want to connect to a pre-running server, you
need to use the :: syntax without a remote shell. Check out the tunnel
support in ssh or in software such as stunnel for how to tunnel a secure
connection from one system to another.
..wayne..
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