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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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How can I move files from Windows to Linux using WinSCP?

I have putty and winscp, but winscp doesn't work in this case because I need to use a command cd ../public in order to enter the directory as I can't find it for some reason. How would I use putty ...
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WinSCP like Sync on linux

I'm trying to sync files to an FTP like WinSCP does on linux (continually checking for changes and uploading changed files). Is there such a thing? I know of rsync but I don't think that triggering ...
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Linux Quota Custom Error Message via SFTP

Is it possible to pass a custom error message to the sftp client when the user exceeds the soft or at least the hard quota limit? My SFTP Client (WinSCP) shows me an error message in which it states ...
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Using WinSCP with SSH server and 2 machine hops

I'm on a windows machine using putty to ssh into my schools server. From there I need to "slogin -XY machine1" and then "slogin -XY machine2" . Ideally, I'd like to use WinSCP to connect and ...
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ASC key file, login on cent OS using WINSCP

My system admin given me a file with extension .asc. to loging to the Server, but i am unable to login , as WINSCP or putty says this key is in different format, is another tool like wnscp and putty ...
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WINSCP File Transfer Speed

I'm very comfortable using WINSCP. However, it offer very slow speed. It shows Windows to Linux transfer speed just 250kb/s Is there any other WINSCP alternative which offers same set of feature ...
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Linux: Continuously synchronize files, one way

Scenario: An IDE is set up on a Linux desktop box, editing PHP files locally. Every time I save a file, I want this change to appear on the linux server where Apache is running. The server has ssh ...
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Help understanding iostat output

I am watching iostat while doing a remote copy using WinSCP. WinSCP is reporting a ~8MB/s transfer rate. iostat reports a 2.37MB/s read rate. How does that make sense? Every 13.0s: iostat -m ...
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WinSCP equivalent for Linux/Ubuntu

I'm shifting most of my projects to a Linux machine, and one of the things that I miss is WinSCP. I've found other answers saying that nautilus, FileZilla etc. can be used for SFTP, but something that ...