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Happy New Year This sounds like a permissions problem rather than anything to do with ssh. You could create a 'backup' user that has access to the relevant files, and rsych login as that, eg@ rsync -r files/ backup@target:/path/ For automated rsync you presumably want to use key login rather than password, using ssh-keygen to make the keys. You can then turn password login off for the "backup" user. To clear permission bits you can use eg. Umask 022 in the ssh_config file. I'm not sure of any of this answers your question. D On Wednesday 02 January 2008 15:26:41 Simon Williams wrote: > Hello everyone (and Happy New Year). > > I'm trying to make a backup of my server using rsync over ssh. Direct > root logins are not permitted on either machine, but this presents a > problem. I need to have root perms on the server so that I can see all > the files to backup. But I also need root perms on the machine to which > the backups are being made so that the ownership of files is preserved. > > Any ideas how to overcome this one? > > Actually I sometimes have a similar problem with scp, where I want to > copy a config file or similar from one machine to another, but can't > because I don't have direct root login. > > Is there any way to tell scp, rsync, etc to ssh into the machine and > then 'su' (asking for the password of course)? > > Thanks in advance. > Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html