rsync from Ubuntu to Ubuntu as root, possible?

[Brian McKee]

On 12/07/07, Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at cbn.net.id> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to Ubuntu, and I'm aware that it's root account is not active and that
> we should use sudo. But, I need to do an rsync from Ubuntu to Ubuntu as root.
> Is it possible, or should I activate the root account?
> Example:
> sudo rsync -e ssh root at 10.0.0.19:/var/lib/samba /var/lib/samba

Make a little wrapper script - stick it in usr local bin and edit
/etc/sudoers to all a regular user to run only that wrapper script as
root.

Then you'd just
  ssh regularUser at ubuntubox 'backupSambaScript'

HTH
Brian