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Alfredo Cely
Alfredo Cely

Reputation: 11

How to copy files from the google cloud shell environment to a virtual machine as a super user?

Cannot copy files from Cloud Shell to virtual machine as super user.

The following code works for me, but I cannot use it to copy files to the protected directories within the LAMP stack (i.e. /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs). 

gcloud compute scp --project "[MY PROJECT ID]" ~/file.php lampstack-vm:~/file.php

If I try to use: gcloud compute scp --project "[MY PROJECT ID]" ~/file.php lampstack-vm:~/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/file.php I get the following error:

Permission denied (publickey). lost connection ERROR: (gcloud.compute.scp) [/usr/bin/scp] exited with return code [1].

Upvotes: 0

Views: 824

Answers (1)

Alfredo Cely
Alfredo Cely

Reputation: 11

Steps to copy files from Google Cloud Shell to VM

Step 1: Give your Google username permission in your VM machine directory with chown:

sudo chown -R [Your Google Cloud Username] [Directory for Permission]

Example: sudo chown -R myusername /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs

Step 2: Fun a gcloud compute scp command with the parameters below:

'''gcloud compute scp --project "PROJECT NAME" [Original Location in Cloud Shell] [Your Google Cloud Username]@[Name of VM Instance to receive file]:[Directory and file name]'''

Example: gcloud compute scp --project "myprojectname" ~/colors.php myusername@myvm-instance: /opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs/colors.php

Upvotes: 1

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