scp - permission denied

[emamm]

Hello

I am trying to scp copying my home dir from one machine to another, but only thing I got is a permssion denied.

What i did was:

scp -r eduardo@xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/eduardo/Documents .

then the password (ok)

and finally

./Documents: Permission denied

[eduardo@xxx home]$ ls -l
total 20

drwx------ 87 eduardo eduardo 4096 Aug 19 16:37 eduardo/

and

drwxr-xr-x 25 eduardo eduardo 20480 Aug 17 11:55 Documents/

What is wrong?

Many thanks

Ed

[ibbo]

Your using scp which is a file copy util not a dir copy util.

You need to use rsync instead.

rsync -avp -e "ssh" eduardo@xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/eduardo/Documents .

That will then mirror your Documents dir on your target machine

Ibbo

[pete_1967]

Originally Posted by ibbo

Your using scp which is a file copy util not a dir copy util.

SCP is not restricted to files, '-r' switch in scp copies/ uploads directories recursively so your statement is false. Neither is rsync for directory transfers only, nor it is best for simple ftp-style operation.

Back to original question, try ssh to the machine you're trying to copy files from and go to the directory you're trying to download. If you can get there, try creating and deleting a file to see that you actually have permissions to it, if not, then you need to check those to start with.

[emamm]

Hello

I did what you have suggested and I have no problemh to create or delete files within the dir I want to copy.

Cheers

Ed

[pete_1967]

`scp -r user@domain:/[path_to_dir_to_download] .` should then work without any problems.

Now having had a 2nd look at the error messahe you're getting, './Documents' refers to your current directory on client. Create a temporary directory, cd to that and try downloading the Documents dir again (if worst comes to worst, chmod 777 the temporary dir first).

[emamm]

Silly me! You were right some permissions were off.

Many thanks

Ed