I am trying to copy dirs and files under the root on the remote host, using non-root user, which one actually doesn`t have access to this folders. So I need something like sudo while copying.

Sample command:

scp user@<host>:<path_to_folder_under_the_root> .

I cannot use root@ cause I have not the root keys local. Is there any possible ways to do this?

CodePudding user response：

Assuming that you do have sudo access on the remote host, instead of using scp you can use ssh and tar:

ssh user@<host> sudo tar -C <path_to_folder_under_the_root> -cf . | tar -xf-

CodePudding user response：

The solution that works for me is rsync --rsync-path="sudo rsync". @larsks`s solution might also be suitable for this case.