Apr 14, 2014 · ls ~/.ssh with this above command, you can see all your ssh files which would be like this: id_rsa id-rsa.pub Please note that: id_rsa: It's a private file and id-rsa.pub: It's a public file. so, if you like to see inside of that file or whatever you like just type this command : cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Dec 9, 2016 · The .ssh directory is not by default created below your home directory. When you call ssh somehost (replace 'somehost' by the name or IP of a host running sshd), the directory and the file .ssh/known_hosts will be created. Instead, you may create it with mkdir ~/.ssh. –

This is probably not a direct answer to what you're asking, but when I need to transfer files over a SSH session I use WinSCP, which is an excellent file transfer program over SCP or SFTP. Of course this assumes you're on Windows.

Dec 5, 2008 · Think of scp as like cp, except you can specify a file with user@remote_host:file as well as just local files. Edit: As noted in a comment, if the usernames on the local and remote hosts are the same, then the user can be omitted when specifying a remote file.

Regarding your first paragraph, I am able to ssh with public/private keys with a user on my local linux box (e.g. abc), different from the user on the remote server (e.g. [email protected]). I just had to make sure the local user owned the local .ssh files (e.g. abc:abc, not root:abc)` –

Apr 10, 2017 · The practical effect of this is that the end user can seamlessly interact with remote files being securely served over SSH just as if they were local files on his/her computer. On the remote computer the SFTP subsystem of SSH is used. From apt show sshfs: sshfs is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH ...

May 31, 2015 · Your question is a bit confusing, but I am assuming - you are first doing 'ssh' to find out which files or rather specifically directories are there and then again on your local computer, you are trying to scp 'all' files in that directory to local path. you should simply do scp -r. So here in your case it'd be something like

Sep 6, 2012 · Here connection is success full. And now I want to see all the folders and all the files and need to enter in to required folder for retrieving the XML file from there. Finally my intention is to view all the folders and files after connecting to SFTP server. In the above code I had used ftp.listdir() through which I got output as some thing ...

The premise of the question is incorrect. The idea is, once logged into ssh, how to move files from the logged-in machine back to the client that is logged in. However, scp is not aware of nor can it use the ssh connection. It is making its own connections.

Jun 2, 2013 · scp uses ssh for data transfer with the same authentication and provides the same security as ssh. A best practise here is to implement "SSH KEYS AND PUBLIC KEY AUTHENTICATION". With this, you can write your scripts without worring about authentication.