Downloading Folders to the Local via SSH

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I am learning SSH as it seems there are no good SSH GUIs for Macs. I know how to make db dumps, cruise through the directories, etc, but the one last piece of the puzzle I need to learn is how to download folders/entire directories from the server and onto my local computer so I can then move them to another server.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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scp -r user@host:/path/to/folder/ local-copy-of-folder

If you have SSH keys set up, you can tab-complete remote files/folders.

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One thing to check is permissions on the key file on the server. I have found in the past that sshd will not use the authorised_keys file unless the permissions are greatly restricted.

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

ought to do it.

BTW, I'm using keys generated by PuTTY to access a Linux (Slackware) server and all is well.

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WinSCP is a good client for file transfer over SSH, and can work from windows cli or gui.

as for rights, no you don't need root to ssh, and if they reduce your privileges but grant you the required permissions on the files you need, that should work just fine for you. personally I don't allow root login via ssh, but I don't tend to run distros that enable a root account by default.

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