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Interesting Secure Copy Behavior

I'm not entirely sure where to ask this question, so if this is not the right place just let me know and I'll move it. Today I was trying to using recursive scp to copy a directory between two Linux ...
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Copying large tree from one machine to another, maintaining ownership

I am trying to copy a large folder structure between machines. I want to maintain the ownership/rights during the copy as it is not reasonable to 'fix' the privs afterwards. Therefore, I am using the ...
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“Permission denied, try again” while transferring files with scp

I have two servers (A and B) and my local machine. I'm trying to transfer a file from server A to server B. From server A: scp ./backup.tar user@server.b:/home/public/ Permission denied, please try ...
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Permissions “problem” using SCP to copy to root owned folder from local

I'm taking some early forays into setting up a basic LAMP box. It's my first time setting up the software I'll use as opposed to just being handed a working environment, so go easy on me :) I have ...