I'm no Linux expert, so I need I bit of help.

I need to upload a file to the server whilst logged in as the root. The server is running RedHat 7.2. How do I do this via SSH? What command do I use? if not via SSH, how else do I upload the file?

Any help would be appreciated!

sftp or scp for SSH transfers (rsync works too if you have that).

man sftp
man scp
man rsync

What are you trying to do, specifically? Maybe we can help.

Originally posted by mrdokau
I'm no Linux expert, so I need I bit of help.

I need to upload a file to the server whilst logged in as the root. The server is running RedHat 7.2. How do I do this via SSH? What command do I use? if not via SSH, how else do I upload the file?

Any help would be appreciated!

I can't think of one reason in the world, of why you would want or need to upload a file while logged in specifically as the root user? Why do you need to do that? Anyway, there's another means to accomplish this, as whatever user (including root), and that is, if you're able anyway, to use wget, ftp, scp, lynx, etc., to simply 'download' the file instead of uploading it.

That's for the suggestions guys.

Here's what I'm trying to do. I have CPanel/WHM installed and need to upload some HTML files to the /root/cpanel3-skel directory.

Seeing I can't FTP into the server as the root to access this directory, I thought the only why to upload files to this directory would be via SSH? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Upload the files to one of your FTP sites. Then login via SSH as root and move the files to the skel folder and change the permissions. Your done. ;-)

Great idea! Many thanks....

Yes, that would be my suggestion. As there's never a need to FTP into a server as root to upload anything. I'd never suggest that, even if you could. You can always log in as root and grab a file *from* somewhere (you can do this as non-root as well), or if you need to upload, to just upload it as a non-priveledged user and su to root to move it and do your duty.

Upload all your files as your normal user, then su to root. As root just type 'cp filename /root/cpanel3-skel' then set correct permissions and BAM, you're done. :)

Wow Jayson,
Kinda like I said above. Problem solved. Your Done.

phpjames,

Yep. Just thought I would give him the commands to do it, wasnt sure if he knew them. :P