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OskarH
OskarH

Reputation: 165

Eclipse remote system explorer and sudo

I use Eclipse RSE to access files on a web server. To establish a sftp connection with Eclipse RSE I use my HippieBandJam user-ID. To edit files I need root access which I only can gain with the sudo command. In Eclipse RSE I have tried to start a new ssh terminal, use sudo su and then refreshed the sftp tree but this does not seem to work. Does anyone have any idea how to "upgrade" the sftp connection so I can edit the files?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 3377

Answers (4)

D4v1dW3bb
D4v1dW3bb

Reputation: 68

Other Workaround: NOT ON LIVE SERVER!!!!

Assign the group of the files write rights during the period you are editing them and add your account to the group.

Upvotes: 0

Adam
Adam

Reputation: 1

My workaround for this was to set up the connection to use the root user from the start. First, you need to enable it on your ssh client: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=86876

Then you may have to configure the authorized_keys file: /root/.ssh/authorized_keys to accept the key.

Hope that helps! It's not quite as secure, so be wary of this method.

Upvotes: 0

eyevan
eyevan

Reputation: 1473

If you want something really exotic, you could:

  1. Compile a tiny program in C that does the only thing: execs the shell
  2. Set a suid bit for the executable
  3. Create a new user and set our freshly compiled binary as this user's login shell
  4. Set up proper permissions for the binary, allowing only the new user to execute this file
  5. Use new user's credentials to log onto the server

He-he :-)

Upvotes: 1

user1596193
user1596193

Reputation: 100

Here is one idea:

create a mount point in your local system in /media/

use sshfs cmd to mount the remote server file system directory to .

In eclipse use the project, use add directory to your project Steps: right click on your project -> New -> Folder -> Advanced (Select link to alternate location) linked folder.

There you have your remote systems files synced up...

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 0

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