Comments on: rsync and sudo over SSH

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:58:41 +0000

Very helpful, thank you.

Josiah Purtlebaugh — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:25:20 +0000

I found this article very helpful; thank you.

crashingdaily — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:58:40 +0000

Hi Xavier, I am able to

ssh -t server.remotehost.com “sudo -v”

and then

ssh -t server.remotehost.com “sudo ls /root”

but the sudo rsync doesn’t work for me unless I add “Defaults !tty_tickets” to /etc/sudoers.

Still, this is a great suggestion for my other remote sudo needs. Thank you!

Xavier Martinez-Hidalgo — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:40:23 +0000

Note that, in Option 2, you can use the ssh -t switch:

ssh -t server.remotehost.com sudo -v

to force ssh to allocate a pseudo-tty and avoid the need of using the “stty -echo” and “stty echo” commands.