Re: FTP and SSH access question

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: 30 Nov 2004 20:35:38 GMT

In article <f6b96d9f.0411301200.3696a33b@posting.google.com>,
c3dy8911r <c3dy8911r@yahoo.com> wrote:
>I am working on a RedHat 9 machine remotely (in a lab environment),
>trying to access a file owned by root (permissions: -r--------) on the
>remote machine. I have root FTP access (upstream) but only user-level
>access via SSH.
>
>The FTP data port (20) is closed, so I can't get the file with FTP. I
>can't use SSH (or SCP) to view/download the file, because root is
>disabled from connecting to SSH (even locally).

FTP in as root and chmod the file so your user account can read it, then
scp it then chmod it back.

Depending on your firewall rules, FTP passive mode might work too. 

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