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I have a file on server A which needs to get to server B in an area which I only have sudo access (i.e. I have a user account that has root privileges with sudo). what is the syntax for the scp command?
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We have a backup routine that previously ran from one disk to another on the same server, but have recently moved the source data to a remote server and are trying to replicate the job via scp.
We need to run the script on the target server, and we've set up key-based scp (no username/password…
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Have a situation where we have an application log sitting out on an AIX server. The log is being continually written to from the application, and we have users on Windows who want to view the file. What they've been doing is using WinSCP to transfer the file to their desktop and they open it using…
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I have a series of files I need to copy via SCP over a VPN to a remote linux server each night. The files are not large, we're talking about tens of megabytes here, but the file copy almost always stalls after a few seconds. Running the SCP command with -vvv, I see the following over and over throughout…
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Hi, my scp commands do hang at 100% before the finish (some seconds), The output I get using -vvv is this:
http://paste.pocoo.org/show/137504/
Any ideas?
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I just read the Linux scp command issue question and it reminded me that I regularily forget to specify the colon in the host part of a scp command, and thus copying a file locally instead of copying to a remote host, e.g. I do
scp foo host
instead of
scp foo host:
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On a colleagues computer, everytime I use a sudo command, I get this error:
sudo: must be setuid root
I tried various things mentioned on the internet, like changing the permissions to 4755 from a live cd, but even this command from a live-cd
sudo chmod 4755 /media/device/usr/bin/sudo
gives the…
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Jun 7 00:01:18 Isis lightdm: pam_unix(lightdm-autologin:session): session opened for user mimi by (uid=0)
Jun 7 00:01:18 Isis lightdm: pam_ck_connector(lightdm-autologin:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
Jun 7 00:01:26 Isis polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for…
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I am currently having some trouble with yum through sudo. For some reason, it does not seem to work:
aron@graviton [/var/log]# sudo yum clean all
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:
/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/datetime…
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Every since I upgraded all my linux-vserver Debian guests from Lenny to Squeeze I've the apparent problem that whenever I want to use sudo it asks me for my password. Every time.
I've configured sudo to have a timeout of 30 minutes: Defaults timestamp_timeout=30 . This has been configured when it…
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Hi,
What difference in security of UBUNTU if sudo will not require password?
Thanks
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