How to use sudo from within Windows GUI clients bypassing tty

Question

I need to copy files via ssh but I am getting permission denied.

How can I log as a root by windows clients such us FileZilla/WinSCP?

I try execute command:

sudo su, but I am getting error: You must have tty to run sudo.

I try to resolve this error but without luck.

Answer 1

With WinSCP, check the "Avanced Options" box. In the Environnement>SFTP section, select the "sudo su -c /bin/sftp-server" option.

Indeed, your SSH server has to be configured to allow you lauchning such command.

Answer 2

You have to consider to log in as your root user on the server rather than using su or sudo, this could be done by username or password or via a key file. However, the server should allow you to do this; if not, there is not much that you can do to remotely gain root acces...

Answer 3

What the basic problem here is that there is a protection again non-human input. TTY ensures that the action is performed from keyboard actions, and not from another program. Now there is a way around this.

If you have access to the sodeors file you can deal with this. It is not really recommended but here goes, this is really a way that works.

You open the file /etc/sudoers and you find the following line:

Defaults:myusername    !requiretty

This tells the the system that the user myusername can perform non-keyboard actions. Now you can work with all your files using the sudo command.

Best is to try to avoid this.