'dolphin' is like the file explorer for linux, it's a gui for moving files. ssh -Y remotemachine -l root (or any other sudoer) You need a local X server for this, provided by default on linux, but on windows you should install xming which is free.

Have you considered using dolphin (or any other file manager on ubuntu) and exporting it's display trough the ssh tunnel ? It will spare you the FTP administration, ports, user credentials, etc. if you're just managing some /var/That way you can automate the promotion process with scripts using tools like scp and rsync to reduce errors that can come with doing manual uploads and/or file changes.įTP maybe is not a necessity. I have mixed feelings about this I think it's better to grant privileges for your user to the files and folders that said user needs to edit. After that's done, you can modify WinSCP to execute sudo /bin/sftp-server to elevate the privileges of the sftp-server process that WinSCP uses to manage files with SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP, not to be confused with FTPS). If you want to use something like WinSCP, you can then change the sudoer config on your server to allow the sudo command to be executed for only /bin/sftp-server without requiring a password. There's a lot of tutorials on the subject, probably the easiest method if your workstation is Windows is using PuTTYGen from the makers of PuTTY to create a public key and a private key that'll be compatible with WinSCP, PuTTY, etc. They're more secure (wait till you start looking at all the brute force attempts in your auth logs from bots trying to guess your ssh password mine was reduced to nil when I disabled password authentication and only permitted key authentication).

I'd recommend setting up passwordless SSH using keys.

First things first, you need to sort out your SSH, from which you can do any/all of the things suggested here as far as running x (think of this as 'remote desktop'), managing files, etc.

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