Sudo and perform scp

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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

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