Ubuntu – Copy files over ssh

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Let's say I have 2 pc's set up on a wireless network.

Machine A is my daily driver and it uses Ubuntu 15.04
Machine B is an old pc I want to set up as an ssh server with Debian LXDE(but it boots to terminal).

How do I copy files from machine A to machine B.

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If you prefer GUI you can also install openssh-server on machine B, it can be setup from terminal, and use FileZilla on machine A to connect to machine B. FileZilla will allow you to visually explore file structure, browse directories, copy, move files and directories and it supports login with keys without passwords.

To install openssh-server

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

To install FileZilla

sudo apt-get install filezilla

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I assume that you do not have the password to the other user account, nor to the root account, and/or the remote host does not allow direct root login via SSH.

If it is not too much data, I would just SSH in beforehand, become root, create a tarball of the data, grant access to the tarball for your regular user, then download the tarball as your regular user.

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scp --help or man scp would have told you the option was -P port. You also need to declare this before the file arguments:

scp -P 2000 -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub user@remotebox.remotedomain.tld:~/.ssh/id_rsa_localbox.pub

I also wouldn't trust ~-relative links. Use full paths if you can.

But if you're copying IDs, ssh-copy-id also has an option to provide SSH connection options:

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub '-p 2000 user@remotebox.remotedomain.tld'

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