Ordinary User and WinSCP on Ubunut 14.04

WinSCP is a creature comfort. Transferring of files is a breeze but nowadays "root" isn't allowed to login and requires "sudo" which you can't run since the app is GUI and not terminal. There is a solution: SFTP and some settings that need to be changed.

Procedure:

1. Edit sudoer and add this line "<user> ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server".
2. Go to WinSCP and edit your connection. Select SFTP, click "Advanced", look for the SFTP setting page and put this in: "sudo /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server"

Note: check the actual directory of the file. It may be stored somewhere else

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