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Thank you. I see that this will work.
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I am trying to pull a backup from an Ubuntu server using ssh. I understand that it is not a good practice to enable the root user and passwordless ssh to the server root account.<br />
Instead I should create a create a user with limited scope. How do I do that and still be able to copy all the files in /etc/, etc (which I imagine are readable only by root)? <br />
I guess I could make a user and put him in the group &quot;root,&quot; but wouldn't that defeat the purpose?<br />
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Thank you.
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I am trying to pull a backup from an Ubuntu server using ssh. I understand that it is not a good practice to enable the root user and passwordless ssh to the server root account.
Instead I should create a create a user with limited scope. How do I do that and still be able to copy all the files in /etc/, etc (which I imagine are readable only by root)? 
I guess I could make a user and put him in the group "root," but wouldn't that defeat the purpose?

Thank you.

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