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SSH and SCP giving error
I am doing the same steps (Perform SSH and SCP Without Entering Password on openSSH). But it keep asking password prompt while scp or 'ssh -l' command run. Same steps i did few days back, it was ...
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scp over ssh tunnel
I want to copy files from a remote computer (W) to a private host computer (P) via scp.
Since i can't connect to machine W directly i use an ssh tunnel over 2 different machines with port 22.
What i ...
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Secure file transfer in Linux without SSH? [migrated]
First thing I want to apologize if this question is silly or something... I just tried to research but it seems to be a bit hard to find exactly what I want in Google ! [or I'm not smart enough to ...
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Ubuntu SSH communcation
I have installed to 2 Ubuntu on VMware and i m trying to communicate between 2 machines using ssh.
I made the following changes
Updated the etc/host files on 2 machines Master and Slave with ips
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How to verify SCP transfer was successful?
I'm using http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/ to make an SSH connection to my server, then execute an SCP command to transfers to a remote server. The library's exec() method returns a string (looks ...
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Is there a way to not override existing files when using pscp?
I am trying to copy files from a folder on a server using a batch file. However I don't want the files in the destination folder to be overridden. This is what i have:
set /p address=ip address:
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SSH as Normal User --> SU --> SCP as Root
I'm on a Win7 box connecting to a linux server.
From reading: http://winscp.net/eng/docs/faq_su it looks like I need to open my SCP connections as the particular user.
When I connect via SSH, I can ...
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Non-interactive one-time ssh && scp for 100 servers
I need to copy some data from a cluster of very restricted machines through the network which currently has DNS problems (so some connections are bizarrely not working).
I found that the only way to ...
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scp “lost connection” but ssh works fine
A server I can ssh into fine has begun refusing to scp.
$ scp ~/tmp/foo user@some.example.com:~/tmp/
lost connection
With scp -v -v I can see the connection succeeds and the transfer appears to ...
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Under what circumstances does the scp command fail?
I have two linux(redhat 5.6, 64 bit) servers(hp proliant 380p g8), server1's eth0,eth2 bonded to bond0.Similarly server 2's eth0,eth2 bonded to bond0. server1's eth0 connects to cisco(3560 catalyst) ...
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How can I resume a large scp file transfer when using port forwarding?
I have a machine a couple of hops away, and I need to set up port forwarding in order to transfer files.
Edit: To be clear, the multiple hops are needed in order to access the remote machine. From ...
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Is it possible to execute a remote command via SCP in the same way as SSH?
I want to embed a remote execution command in an SCP command. Is that possible?
It will save having to execute an SCP command first, then executing an SSH command on the transferred fiies.
Is this ...
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SSH SFTP: transfer local directory to remote server
I can't seem to transfer a simple local folder to a remote server via SFTP or SSH. I feel like the issue has to do with absolute paths or home directories, but here's what I've tried:
scp -r ...
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Ubuntu SSHFS doesn't sync
I am trying to set up a Ubuntu-machine for web development, and thought i'd start working with SSHFS instead of the annoying FTP-protocol. I installed SSHFS through apt-get. I've created a folder in ...
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scp over ec2 ignoring a directory?
Facing a problem while using scp to download a file from AWS EC2 instance(to which I have assigned a elastic IP),scp is ignoring the my-store folder. But when i access the ec2 instance over ssh, I can ...
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scp not working
I need to copy a file from remote machine(which is using Windows OS) to my machine(It also uses Windows OS) using ssh in java.So i used JSch sample code exec to do this work.In this i gave scp command ...
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Perform shell operation through secure shell
Is it possible to perform a shell operation from a bash script through a secure shell.
Here is an example of why you may want to do this. Lets say you have a simple unix operating system that you ...
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If I scp a file through an intermediate server, is the file stored temporarily on the server?
For the sake of simplicity (I find it easier to remember names than arbitrary letters), I will dispense with letters and use names to refer to the machines in this scenario.
Say I have two machines, ...
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How to automating Putty Shell task on Windows 7?
I am interested in connecting by shell (Putty or another tool) (I have cygwin and OpenSSH )
This is what I wish to accomplish:
Upload some files by scp (from Windows 7)
Connect to the remote server
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Mac OSX OpenSSH file Transfer not working
I'm currently trying to get a file on my school account from home on my mac using SSH. I have the hostname and I can get in just fine, but transferring files is like smashing my head into a wall over ...
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How to ssh and scp directly through a server?
I connect to server2 in the following way:
home$ ssh server1
server1$ ssh server2
server2$
I also sometimes need to scp this way, which takes some extra time:
home$ ssh server1
server1$ scp ...
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How can I change directory back to client machine in ssh?
I'm trying to transfer files between a server and my mac using the terminal and SSH. If I haven't already logged into the server I can simply type:
scp -r ...
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Does scp require ssh server/client
I previously had openssh-server/client installed on my machine. Doing
scp -r folder/ users@host:/location/ worked fine.
On my new installation without the ssh client/server fails. Do scp and ssh ...
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How do I SCP a file through an intermediate server?
I'm using Ccygwin on WinXP (with the bash shell). I want to SCP a file from my localhost to a remote machine -- host2. However, I can only SSH to an intermediate machine -- host1, and then from ...
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Inconsistencies with SCP for Ubuntu and Windows Server 2003 (using CygWin 1.7.x.x)
Some days ago I was able to scp to the remote server from my windows server 2003 using cygwin to copy the id_rsa, using scp (id_rsa.pub location) user@example.com now it(scp) seems to be not working. ...
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Copy a whole folder from a remote computer
I need to copy a whole folder from a remote computer. I am new to SSH and SCP.
How can I do that?
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sftp packet length error with loaded .bashrc
I regularly use WinSCP to tranfer a few files to my personal server. However I recently experienced the infamous "bad packet length" error due to one of my echo statements residing inside the .bashrc ...
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ssh successful but not scp? why?
I am trying to automate the file transfer between server and the local machine, which I was able to do it on laptop running windows 7 as well as Ubuntu. Now trying to implement it on the local desktop ...
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lftp mget equivalent for put?
Reading this answer, it seems an awesome way of transferring a ton of tiny files between two remote machines is lftp's mget command.
However, I'm using two machines without root access, and only the ...
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Why doesn't redirect work for scp password input?
I want to copy from remote box with scp, while the fact that each time I have to re-enter password is annoying. So I store my password in plain text and expect the following code should work
scp ...
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Compressing files from SCP on the fly
I am retrieving a large files using SCP (from a linux system to a Windows system), now is there any way of compressing that destination file on the fly, for example:
pscp -C ...
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Overwrite if newer : SCP folder transfer
WinSCP has a great feature that only copies newer versions of files when you transfer between hosts. For whatever reason, I'm not able to connect to my remote host via WinSCP so I must use SSH. I ...
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How to copy a sparse file using scp?
Do we have any option in scp that I could copy a sparse file ?
The following command works with ssh, But I am looking for an option in SCP which copies a sparse file.
tar -Szcf - /home/myself/test/ ...
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scp remoteA:file remoteB:
with scp I can get a file
scp remoteA:file .
and put a file
scp file remoteB:
but when I try
scp remoteA:file remoteB:
I get
ssh: Could not resolve hostname remoteB: Name or service ...
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Use different shell for scp
I want to use a different shell when Im scping files to a remote server as compared to when Im logging in. Is there a way to do this? Note that both scp/remote login is done with the same user, so I ...
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scp'ing using key file as a parameter, How can I do that if possible?
scp -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub events*$date*_QA.log $remote_user@$remote_server:$remote_location
Is the aforementioned script incorrect? Am I not doing it correctly?
I went to .ssh directory and see that ...
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scp permission error
I am trying to do a scp from a server where the user home directory has been given permission 744 recursively.
On doing scp I am getting the following error "C0744 1733 database.cpp" .
The situation ...
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scp doesn't work but ssh does
If I want to send something via scp to server:
$ scp file server:
_____ _____ _____
$
, then three lines are printed and file is not copied. However I can connect to server via ...
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why use ftp when scp is available?
Many webhosts etc want you to upload files using ftp or sftp. Yet I always found that scp is faster and simple works better (more like the local cp command).
What are the advantages ftp has to offer ...
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Can SSH into remote server but can't SCP?
I can SSH into remote server just fine using private key authentication with prompt for passphrase.
However I'm getting permission denied when I try to SCP a file using the same passphrase. Here's my ...
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How to use scp between servers
I have 2 Linux machines (CentOS), and I want to transfer a file from one of them to a directory on the other. A co-worker suggested using scp. I've looked at the official docs, and tried getting it to ...
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SSH download file from web server
I need to do a backup on a website, but I need to download locally to a folder on my hard drive.
Example: scp name.zip -> MyMac/Documents/Backup
This can be done via shell, Terminal, etc. What ...
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How to retrieve files to local machine when logged in to SSH?
I know that you can grab files with scp like this:
scp user@remote_machine:/path/to/source /path/to/destination
However, I'd like to know if there is an easier way to do this, when I'm already ...
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Ubuntu. I have disabled ssh login with root on my server, but how to copy files from local to server now?
I can log in to my server with user name "xyzuser" and then use su -l to get root access.
But how do I transfer files?
Any suggestions?
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Copy files from remote Unix machine to windows
I have a remote Unix machine which doesnt have SMB installed and I cannot install it. However there are some files located on that server that I need on a windows machine.
What I need is a way to ...
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scp fails randomly
I'm trying to set up a regular scp between two linux based systems (one with SLC5, other running Ubuntu). I seem to be able to happily copy in one direction, but not the other. Copying from the ...
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SCP recursive transfer order
Wondering whether it's possible to specify a sort order when transferring files with scp.
For example:
$ scp -r "user@host:/path/to/download/" .
[... files download in a seemingly random order ...]
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How to use scp to transfer files from WAN to LAN
I have machine A with a public IP address (addr_a), machine B within a LAN of private IP address(addr_b), the router of the LAN has a public IP address (addr_r).
If I log into machine A by ssh from ...
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How do I transfer a file to my server using PuTTY?
when calling SCP in PuTTY on my Win7 box, it doesn't let me use C:/, but I also have no idea where on my local machine it will look for files by default. None of program directory or user directory ...
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How do I SCP from remote machine to local machine when I am outside of my home network?
While I understand how to scp files to and from my server from within my home network, how can I scp a file from my server to my local machine when I am on the outside, say at Starbucks?
While I am ...
