Secure File Copy

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Tuesday, November 15, 2005 06:17:41 -0800 Joshua Lewis 
<jmlewis at dslextreme.com> wrote:

> I was trying that I did
>
> scp -Cprroot at server.com:/usr/local/www
> localhost:/Users/joshua/Desktop/FreeBSD
>
> And it prompted me for a password on the server but the root password
> would not authenticate.
>
Most likely this is because remote root logins through ssh are not allowed 
(nor should they ever be.)  Use another username.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/