Re: [cobalt-users] Allowing default root SSH login

["Jeremy Wadsack" <jwadsack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Does anybody know how to either enable root login in SSH on a Cobalt
> 550, or how to login as admin as SU to root in the RSync command line

You can set the user that rsync runs at in your rsyncd.conf file. The
parameter is called "user". Then you can log in with any username and it
will change uid to root.


> ? Else I guess we could RSync from the target to the source instead of
> the usual procedure - launch from source and SSH to target as root ?

Push vs. pull, from security perspective, should be decided based on which
machine you feel is safer to "open up." For example, if you are using
rsync to back up a web server (connected to the Internet) to a back server
(not connected to the Internet) then you would want to push from the web
server. That way the only open rsync server is behind your firewall.


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Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group