copying files between two linux machines.
Brian Kelsay
bkelsay at comcast.net
Fri Sep 12 22:07:02 CDT 2003
ismgr wrote:
> I know I posted something here before, but I can't seem to get this to work
> using scp and I was wondering what I was doing wrong.
>
> I'm sshing into the box that I want to get files from and then I issue a
> command along the lines of:
>
> scp user at host1:file1 user at host2:file2
>
> Is this not correct?
>
> That's how the man pages read and I can't seem to get it working right.
>
> I'm sure it's something that I probably hadn't known about, but any help is
> appreciated.
Do you need to pass the password for the user on the remote machine you
are connecting as? Or is that stored locally in a .profile or .conf
file? That is where I would look first.
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Hmmm.
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