How to run SUDO command in WinSCP to transfer files from Windows to linux

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I am trying to use WinSCP to transfer files over to a Linux Instance from Windows    Im using private key for my instance to login to Amazon instance using ec2-user  However ec2-user does not have access to write to the Linux instance   How do i sudo su - to access the root directory and write to the linux box  using WinSCP or any other file transfer method    Thanks

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I know this is old  but it is actually very possible   Go to your WinSCP profile  Session  gt  Sites  gt  Site Manager   Click on Edit  gt  Advanced     gt  Environment  gt  SFTP  Insert sudo su -c  usr lib sftp-server in  quot SFTP Server quot   note this path might be different in your system   Save and connect   Source AWS Ubuntu 18 04

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Tagging this answer which helped me  might not answer the actual question If you are using password instead of private key  please refer to this answer for tested working solution on Ubuntu 16 04 5 and 20 04 1 https   stackoverflow com a 65466397 2457076

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AFAIK you can t do that   What I did at my place of work  is transfer the files to your home     folder  or really any folder that you have full permissions in  i e chmod 777 or variants  via WinSCP  and then SSH to to your linux machine and sudo from there to your destination folder     Another solution would be to change permissions of the directories you are planning on uploading the files to  so your user  which is without sudo privileges  could write to those dirs   I would also read about WinSCP Remote Commands for further detail

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There is an option in WinSCP that does exactly what you are looking for

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I do have the same issue  and I am not sure whether it is possible or not    tried the above solutions are not worked for me   for a workaround  I am going with moving the files to my HOME directory  editing and replacing the files with SSH

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Usually all users will have write access to  tmp  Place the file to  tmp and then login to putty   then you can sudo and copy the file

[linux] How to run SUDO command in WinSCP to transfer files from Windows to linux

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