On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:51:44PM +0200, Jurgen Lamsens wrote: > 3.) I want to scp to a directory that I do not have access to, but I > cannot give some kind of sudo parameter to scp: > jlamsens@ubuntu1:~$ scp file.txt jlamsens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/root/ > jlamsens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password: > scp: /root//file.txt: Permission denied The easy way would be: scp file.txt root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/root/ The harder way would be something like: ssh jlamsens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx sudo sh -c '"cat > /root/file.txt"' < file.txt But this requires a no-password-given sudoer permission on 192.168.155.187 because even if you allocate a pseudo-terminal with "ssh -t", you're still using the stdin stream for data, so sudo can't use it to ask you for your password.
