Is there server configuration you need to set when you want to scp to a server? If i ssh into the machine, i use:
ssh -i file.pem user@server
but when i try the scp command, it will give me a permissions error.
scp path/to/file.pdf -i file.pem user@server:/home/user/.
What am i doing wrong, and how can i fix it? I cant seem to figure out what's up with it. The error reads as:
Permission denied (publickey). lost connection
You need to shuffle around your options and arguments. It should be:
scp -i file.pem path/to/file.pdf user@server:/home/user
Note the omission of /. from the end of the target path. It is not necessary because if the last segement of the target is a dir it will copy the files into the directory, just like cp and mv.
Is there a way to assign the file.pem such that it just picks it up when i use: user
You can do that with an ~/.ssh/config config file:
Host serveralias
HostName server.com
User user
IdentityFile /path/to/your/key.pem
After creating that you can do:
# will effectively be like doing
# ssh -i /path/to/your/key.pem [email protected]
ssh serveralias
Or
# should pick up on the same settings and effectively like
# ssh -i /path/to/your/key.pem [email protected]
ssh [email protected]
And they should both use the IdentityFile you specified.
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