I have flashed my Beagle to a new version and lost all my configurations. I’m used to using SFTP to edit the Beagle files, but now it tells me I don’t have permission to make any changes. What can I do?
Hello,
Have you tried sudo yet or setting up another user w/ sudo permissions?
Seth
Sudo works if I’m using SSH on a terminal. But there’s no way to enter it for SFTP sessions. I’m finding it tedious to edit configuration files with “sudo nano”.
If you are using a sftp communication to transfer files to the BBB, it is allowed.
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Please show the exact error when trying to sign in from the dev. desktop via sftp for the BBB.
Seth
P.S. For instance, on my dev. desktop, I type sftp debian@192.168.x.xx where .x.xx is the rest of the IP Address for my BBB. Once in sftp “mode,” you can use get or put.
For instance:
I am able to use SFTP to transfer my own user files to the Beagle. But I was trying to edit the “interfaces” file to configure my IP addresses. I am unable to upload an edited “interfaces” file because SFTP doesn’t give me superuser permissions. I was eventually able to edit the file with nano. I decided there must be no way to SFTP such protected files. Is that right?
Hello…okay. I must have misinterpreted what you were saying here.
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Did you set up your ssh keys yet? I am not saying this is a 100% cure to the access permissions on the BBB but it may help.
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I will try later in the weekend or next week to test it out again. You have a good point. “Can sftp be used to handle sudo needed file exchanging?”
Seth
P.S. I will test soon and report my findings. So, just to make sure here, you want to edit the /etc/network/ dir?
Also…here: SSH key management for OpenSSH. Many organizations more SSH keys than they think (even millions). Major risks with SSH keys! NIST guidelines on SSH. . This will prove valuable. The SSH keys and Linux OpenSSH client is vast and has many ideas. I will keep testing. Who knows? We may come up w/ a solution…
Yea so…the ssh keys will give root access to the client at hand. This will allow you to update/delete/whatever your files that need sudo permissions or root permissions. Here: * SSH keys grant privileged access. In one typical major enterprise we found that 10% of all SSH keys granted [root access](https://www.ssh.com/iam/user/root).
Also…I think that will do it!
Yes, I was trying to edit /etc/network/interfaces.
Hello…use the sftp if needed instead of nano and load files to the BBB or other family board but first add your ssh key. I listed a page online that shows how to add such a file to your dev. desktop and then use it w/ the BBB or any Linux SBC.
Seth