[clug] scp

[Scott Ferguson]

On 07/09/17 00:44, Bryan Kilgallin (iiNet) via linux wrote:
> Connected to my router are desktop and laptop computers. In the desktop
> user's home directory is a test text file. I couldn't copy it to a
> similar location on the laptop! I don't understand the failure!

One way to do what I (have to) guess what you are trying to do (assuming
this is Linux):-

scott at aspire ~ $ whoami;pwd
scott
/home/scott
scott at aspire ~ $ date +%d%m%Y-%H%M > text.txt
scott at aspire ~ $ cat text.txt
07092017-1102
scott at aspire ~ $ ping -c1 testing.sunnyside
PING testing.sunnyside (192.168.0.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from testing.sunnyside (192.168.0.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
time=0.561 ms

--- testing.sunnyside ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.561/0.561/0.561/0.000 ms
scott at aspire ~ $ grep testing /etc/hosts
192.168.0.4     testing.sunnyside testing
scott at aspire ~ $ ssh-copy-id testing.sunnyside
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: Source of key(s) to be installed:
"/home/scott/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"
The authenticity of host 'testing.sunnyside (192.168.0.4)' can't be
established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:7hq6r1rAtp21F02ezejaoJ/mBfGSo4QJ9dBTBR3NgZY.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: attempting to log in with the new key(s), to
filter out any that are already installed
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: 1 key(s) remain to be installed -- if you
are prompted now it is to install the new keys
scott at testing.sunnyside's password:

Number of key(s) added: 1

Now try logging into the machine, with:   "ssh 'testing.sunnyside'"
and check to make sure that only the key(s) you wanted were added.

scott at aspire ~ $ scp text.txt testing.sunnyside:/home/scott
text.txt
     100%   14     3.9KB/s   00:00
scott at aspire ~ $ ssh testing.sunnyside "cat /home/scott/text.txt"
07092017-1102




Kind regards

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