Sudo and perform scp

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Possible duplicate of scp to remote server with sudo

I'm facing the following issue:

A folder (with sub-folders) with files belonging to usr1:usr1
I login with another user usr2
usr2 can do sudo -u usr1
How can I copy the whole folder to another Linux box over ssh?

I tried the following with no success:

sudo -u usr1 tar cf - * |  ssh  usr2@host 'cd /tmp/dump;  sudo -u usr1 tar xf -'

Any help would be appreciated

I have answered on [another posting](http://superuser.com/a/1120455/559952) how you can customize scp do the sudo for you directly. This is similar to what WinSCP does. — YoYo, Sep 02 '16 at 22:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '13 at 08:57

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You can do this using scp as mentioned in the link you provided, but with the -r flag added to the command. The -r means recursive, so it repeats the scp command for every file and/or folder it finds in that particular folder.

scp -r yourfolder name@host:targetfolder

answered May 24 '13 at 08:57

Omega

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it won't work because of permission. virtually -1 to you ) – ravnur May 24 '13 at 15:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 24 '13 at 21:12

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On the host containing the folder to be copied, run this:

sudo -u usr1 scp -r folder-to-copy usr2@host:/tmp/dump/.

answered May 24 '13 at 21:12

Kride

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Sudo and perform scp

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