Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1326 mails)

[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 01 November 2008 13:40:03 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 01 November 2008 12:54:22 Bob Williams wrote:
> > Anne, thanks for your interest and reassurance, but I have a gremlin
> > here. scp is almost more important to me than ssh, though the latter is
> > now working, thanks to sterling help from David Rankin, who can expect a
> > beer from me next time I'm passing through Nacogdoches :).
The clue is in the subject line (first word), in other words, the problem was 
in front of the keyboard, not inside the machine (wasn't it ever thus?)

I have been issuing commands such as

scp testfile sputnik:/home/robert

without specifying a 'target' user. It should of course be

scp testfile robert@sputnik:/home/robert

Duh!!!

> Good to know that you have a solution :-)  Yes, David has been helping folk
> for years, to my knowledge.
I still owe you that beer, David, but it won't be real soon. I live in Sussex, 
UK.

> > I know I could use rsync, but it requires modules being setup beforehand,
> > which makes it a bit less flexible for single file transfers.
>
> Have you considered keychain?  I use it to handle keys, and with that
> passing my authorisations I can have a folderview on my desktop to my home
> directory on my server box and to another data directory.  If I just want
> to copy a few files across I can handle those directories in dolphin just
> like local ones. Keychain also makes it easy to do a backup shell script to
> rsync files between the two boxes.
>
> I found an easy-to-follow howto on the net, set up keychain in about 5
> minutes, and have blessed the day ever since :-)
Thanks for that. I shall certainly take a look at keychain, and also fish as 
suggested by Joe Morris.

> Anne

Bob
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