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user3721640
user3721640

Reputation: 947

using ssh keys with scp and ssh

I am trying to copy few files to a target system using scp and then login to the system and install those files. I used scp and ssh commands here with ssh keys for passwordless authentication.

The ssh key was created on the source system as below. Is this the correct and secured way of creating an ssh key?

~]# ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f ~/.ssh/mytest.key

The key was copied from the source to target system with executing below command.

~]# ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/mytest.key

Now, the SSH login works fine without prompting for a password, however the scp is still not working.. it still prompts for a password. Should I specify the key path when using scp? If so how do I specify the keypath along with scp command?

Here is the ssh command used

~]# ssh -i ~/.ssh/mytest.key [email protected]

Upvotes: 69

Views: 188875

Answers (5)

Mascaraneous
Mascaraneous

Reputation: 41

Just do this it works:

chmod 400 keyfile.pem

scp -i /path/to/key.pem file-name user@server-ip:/path/to/user/home

Upvotes: 3

Mahattam
Mahattam

Reputation: 5783

Assume your case for scp from 192.168.1.1 try below command.

scp -i ~/.ssh/mytest.key [email protected]:/<filepath on host> <path on client>

make sure the key file should have permission 600 or 400.

Upvotes: 138

Sarfo K. Frimpong
Sarfo K. Frimpong

Reputation: 9

First, change chmod of the file on the remote before scp....

sudo chmod 775 'file-name'

Upvotes: -2

ksemele
ksemele

Reputation: 23

another option to copy ssh key:

ssh-copy-id [email protected]

after that you can use scp:

scp ./file [email protected]:/path_on_host/

result:

 [file] -transfer-> [192.168.1.1:/path_on_host/]

Upvotes: 0

damndemon
damndemon

Reputation: 346

You can follow below procedure as well:

  1. Generate ssh key using below command
~]$ ssh-keygen

It will ask you for details like file name, file location, passphrase etc.

  1. Make sure keep location and file name as default which will be
/home/user/.ssh/rsa_id

After confirming passphrase, private and public key files will be created.

  1. Create file with name authorized_keys in same .ssh folder as in step 2. Copy contents of public key in this file.

You are done! Works for both ssh and scp the only password required will your passphrase (if you keep one).

Upvotes: 3

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