Secure Copy or SCP is a means of securely transferring computer files between a local and a remote host or between two remote hosts.
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Transfer a file from Android to a PC (not in the same network)
If I were connected by wifi in my network, there isn't any problem because with AirDroid I can access the sdcard files using the browser.
However when I am out, how can I transfer a file from my ...
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ssh/scp works but rsync just constantly says “no”
Hi I have a windows 2003 server that I need to back up onto a linux client so I install cygwin on the Win2k3. On the Win2k3 I have enabled ssh, scp but (because the Win2k3 server uses an customised ...
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Indirect SCP connection
I use ssh and scp to connect to a remote server.
Due to a ip/proxy limitation on the remote server, I have to connect first to another server. For example, if I want to connect to "SERVER-A", I have ...
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Transferring Files SSH SCP Error Message: 'Stdin: is not a tty'
I am using a Macbook SSH terminal and generated RSA key pairs and uploaded remote id_rsa.pub with approved permissions. I can connect with remote Apache web server. I can create, open, move, modify ...
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How to scp/tar files that are in between specific days?
I need to copy db log files between two suse servers where I am interested in files ONLY in between 10.3.2013 - 13.3.2013
It is desired to compress the files before copying so I tar them and scp. ...
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Restricting an SSH/SCP/SFTP user to a directory
Is there a simple way to restrict an SCP/SFTP user to a directory? All methods that I've come across require me to set a chroot jail up by copying binaries, but I don't think that should be necessary.
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SCP fails without error
I've been experiencing very strange behavior of SCP for some time: whenever I try to copy a file, the output of SCP contains a bunch of underscores and the file is not copied.
$ scp test.txt ...
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scp hangs on SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
I frequently scp my file to remote host. But suddenly it started taking more than 30 seconds to copy 20kb file.It used to take not more than half a second.
After referring to some blog I appended
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scp recursively directories on SunOS
I have encountered a small issue with SCP (and also rsync). I need to copy certain files from server A (running SunOS 5.8) to server B (running SunOS 5.10).
First, I get the list of files (several ...
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scp and compress at the same time, no intermediate save
What is the canonical way to:
scp a file to a remote location
compress the file in transit (tar or not, single file or whole folder, 7za or something else even more efficient)
do the above without ...
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How to scp with regular expressions
I'm trying to copy all files that do not begin with the letter "a", in ksh.
Copying from the source machine to destination machine is working fine:
scp -p !(a*) user@machine:/path/directory/.
But, ...
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How to use wildcards (*) when copying with scp?
Why can't I copy with scp when I'm using "*" characters in the path?
scp SERVERNAME:/DIR/* .
What configs do SCP need to allow "*" in the path?
UPDATE: the problem is not on server side, pscp is ...
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Changing user while scp
I need to copy file between Linux machines. The problem that the user I use to login (myuser), is different from the user that can access the file.
If I just ssh to the machine, I can switch the user ...
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Error using SCP: “not a regular file”
I have been searching for a while and I can't find the definition of a regular file. My path is permanent (I start at /) and I am connecting to
scp root@IP: /path/to/picture.jpg
Results in an ...
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Does a `scp` transfer close when I close the shell?
I have scp transfer (from one remote server to another), that is quite big.
So maybe I want close the computer from which I executed this command, will this end the transfer? I have ssh access to ...
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I'm only allowing pubkey auth via ssh. How can I still log in with password?
vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config
egrep -i 'Pubkey|Password|Listen' /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep -v '^#'
ListenAddress 0.0.0.0
PermitRootLogin without-password
PubkeyAuthentication yes
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How to copy Big files on other Linux Server Independent of TTY
Actually i was trying to copy all the files in another director. Total size of the file is 188GB so its going to take a time.
Im trying to copy for Linux server A to B using this command
nohup scp ...
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How to auto type password for SCP or SFTP to automate it?
I have script where I put scp command to backup file to other server. But when it runs it asking to type password. Is there way to automate this? I am using CentOS 5.6. I have seen few guides they use ...
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scp current folder to destination folder name as ddmmyy
I want to add a cron job that scp a folder to a server with on the server the folder name is in another folder whose folder name is a timestamp like ddmmyy
something like
scp -r <foldername> ...
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Tar piped to split piped to scp
So I'm trying to transfer a bunch of files via SCP. Some of these are too large to be stored on the recipient (Android phone, 4GB file size limit).
The sender is almost out of space, so I can't ...
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scp force overwrite read only files
I was wanting to use scp to move some files and overwrite any existing instances of these files on the destination server. Some of them may be read only which, of course, courses the scp to fail with ...
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How to enable local ~ autocompletion for scp?
Whenever I want to copy a file from my home directory, I run into the same issue: scp (using openssh-client 1:5.9p1-5ubuntu1, GNU bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)) won't ...
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Sftp interface to Scp
I have a linux based router that doesn't have the SFTP server installed. More specifically, when I sftp user@ipaddress I get a sh: /user/libexec/sftp-server: not found error. My interest isn't trying ...
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Suppress server message in rsync
When I rsync or scp from a particular server I get a rather long message telling me the rules of the server. However when I setup regular pulls, I'd like to be able to suppress those messages in my ...
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Scp doesn't work in cron
Yeah, I know it's classic. I've googled it all around, but still it doesn't work. I have the following script:
#First go to SVN repo folder
cd $svnrepos
# Just make sure we have write access to ...
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I can ssh into a remote machine but I can't use scp to copy local stuff to the remote machine
I'm using a remote machine, which is in a lab
and the administrator ask a RSA public key and then I can login into that machine
using a passphrase I set
now I want to use scp to copy local stuff to ...
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What's the difference between SFTP, SCP and FISH protocols?
I used to think SCP is a tool to copy files over SSH, and copying files over SSH is called SFTP, which is itself a synonym to FISH.
But now as I was looking for a Total Commander plugin to do this in ...
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Escaping quotes for scp
I needed to write a that behaves correctly with nasty (spaces, braces, etc..)
filenames.
scp -rv "$1" shiny:/Volumes/Seagate3To/\"$1\"
This function works, but I don't understand why the quotes ...
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How to scp folders with nasty names using a shell function
I am trying to write a function that I will put on all my machines in order to make it easy to send files at a fixed place on my network.
Here is my script so far. Some folder may have duplicates ...
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Is there ever a reason to use scp instead of rsync?
Is there a reason to use scp instead of rsync? I can see no reason for using scp ever again, rsync does everything that scp does, with more safety (can preserve symlinks etc).
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Recursive scp without following links or creating a giant tar file?
So I did a recursive scp on my remote fileserver (in another state) and it created an infinite loop of links on my remote web directory...
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Copy over ssh and execute commands in one session [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using an already established SSH channel
Here is my sync script:
ssh user@remote.host /etc/init.d/some_service stop
scp user@remote.host:/var/some_service/events ...
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How to copy with SCP between two servers using key auth?
I can log in via SSH using key authentication to SERVER1 and SERVER2. However, I can't copy files between the two servers. Why? How can I copy between them? (the data that I have to copy is bigger ...
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SCP and/or SSH command with password in line
First, I'm TRYING to use rsa keys because I'm using the script to create RSA keys, but initially I have to connect to the remote machine to pass over the newly generated authentication key. Having ...
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Transfer files using scp: permission denied
I try to transfer files from remote computer using ssh to my computer :
scp My_file.txt user_id@server:/Home
This should put My_file.txt in the home folder on my own computer, right?
I get
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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 ...
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scp permission denied after 'hardening' with bastille
I recently 'hardened' two Ubuntu servers using Bastille, and now I get permission denied: scp whenever I try to scp files in.
SSH login works fine.
I've tried adding an /scp-dump folder with 777 ...
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Configure SCP access for login without a local account
Can I set up accounts that can do SCP that are NOT local users (i.e. users with an entry in /etc/passwd)? I've tried googling for SCP "without PAM authentication" or alternative authenication for sshd ...
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How can I send single file to multiple remote sites at the same time?
Can scp be used to send a single file to multiple remote servers at the same time? If so, how? If not, what's the alternative?
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Unable to use scp on Solaris
I'm trying to use scp from one Solaris machine to another, but I get this message and the copy fails:
root@ark123 # scp -r emcgrab_SunOS_v4.4.4a.tar 192.163.119.21:/tmp
Password:
Sourcing ...
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How to copy between two remote hosts using tar piped into scp from remote server when behind a firewall?
I'd like to transfer a directory between two servers, but compress the directory on the remote host before transfer, and then uncompress to another host. I'm sure it's possible to pipe everything all ...
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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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Short way to scp using the same dir/file in origin and target
I am frequently updating files from a development enviroment to a production one in different servers so the paths are the same in both hosts and it becomes kind of a repetitive procedure to update a ...
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Why does SCP hang on copying files larger than 1405 bytes?
I'm trying to copy a file from one of my local machines to a remote machine. Copying a file with size upto 1405 bytes works fine. When I try to scp a larger file, the file gets copied but the scp ...
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Execute remote script with local parameter value
How can I automatize this task?
1) You are at A.
2) You ssh into B.
3) You run a script at B, that needs a parameter known at A.
First, I thought perhaps I could send the value when I opened the ...
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Send an email any time an SSH key is used
I have about 30 nearly-identical CentOS 6 servers that I need to be able to push out updated config files automatically using an rsa key to log in as root. Usually this will just be rsync, but ...
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How do I use sftp to get a directory and all its contents?
When I try to use the command get from sftp, I get the error saying that it is not a normal file. Is there a way around this?
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Disable direct login for normal users (like oracle) in linux but allow scp and sftp?
Is it possible to disable direct login for normal users (like oracle) in linux but allow scp and sftp for that use?
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Why is this scp command creating a directory one level up?
I am trying to copy a file from one machine to another machine via ssh. Both machines are Ubuntu servers. Both machines have exchaged keys so that they can log into each other without passwords.
The ...
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scp: localhost password not accepted
I'm attempting to copy a public key to a remote server. I'm logged in locally as [localname] and the key resides locally at ~/.ssh/. I'm also ssh'd into [remote.com] as [remotename], and attempting to ...
