On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:26:07AM -0600, Harry P wrote: > Axel Freyn <axel-fr...@gmx.de> writes: > > > Why do you use ssh to connect to the local machine? I would propose to > > To make use of the ssh-agent and circumvent typing the password every > time I want a root shell. >
Another approach to avoiding password typing is to use sshfs to mount an access poing thru which you can access (rw) the file with root priveleges from a user shell. Have I said it so its understandable? I do it and it works. There is some automagical redefining of rwx to root for those which pass thru the sshfs deamon. HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
