[SOLVED] Move files with appended date using SCP

Turbocapitalist · 12-16-2016, 09:33 AM

There are several key types. Ed25519 is one of the new ones, and considered quite sound. Check the manual page for ssh-keygen for what's available on your particular systems. DSA should be avoided now, even if it might still be available. If you don't have ed25519 or you have a dongle that requires RSA, then RSA is a good fallback.

michaelk · 12-16-2016, 09:34 AM

Using a EdDSA key instead of dsa or rsa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdDSA

I'm having a bad day...

trickydba · 12-16-2016, 09:45 AM

I used ssh, but it still asks for a password

Turbocapitalist · 12-16-2016, 09:47 AM

Can you show the command you used to create the key? And the command you used to upload it to the server? And, finally, the command you used to try to use the key when connecting with ssh or scp?

trickydba · 12-16-2016, 10:07 AM

to create the key - ssh-keygen
to upload it to the server - ssh-copy-id username@hostname
to connect using ssh - ssh username@hostname

trickydba · 12-16-2016, 10:21 AM

I have 3 files in .ssh directory, id_rsa, id_rsa.pub and known_hosts. Is any of these suppose to be in the command?

Turbocapitalist · 12-16-2016, 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trickydba

to create the key - ssh-keygen
to upload it to the server - ssh-copy-id username@hostname
to connect using ssh - ssh username@hostname

The first two are ok, though I prefer ed25519 over RSA myself. ssh-keygen defaults to RSA.

However, with that last line, you need to tell ssh which key to use, even if there is only one.

Code:

ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa username@hostname

See the manual page man ssh for the details on -i

trickydba · 12-16-2016, 10:30 AM

Did that..........still asks for a password

Turbocapitalist · 12-16-2016, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trickydba

Did that..........still asks for a password

Ok. On the server, check the permissions and make sure that no other users besides yourself have write access to .ssh or the directories above it:

Code:

stat -c "%U %G %a" /home/
stat -c "%U %G %a" /home/trickydba/
stat -c "%U %G %a" /home/trickydba/.ssh/
stat -c "%U %G %a" /home/trickydba/.ssh/authorized_keys

The directory .ssh should have permissions of 700.

Do you have access on the server to track the logs from sshd?

michaelk · 12-16-2016, 10:58 AM

Is the server configured for public key authentication?

ssh defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa so it isn't necessary to specify it with the -i unless it is different.

trickydba · 12-16-2016, 11:54 AM

This whole process works in PowerShell(YUCK!) but I LOVE linux and want to do it in linux. I noticed in the Powershell script it actually passes the host key. I'd rather do this in linux but this is a very big struggle for me, I've been on this at work and even at home for HOURS!!!!!

trickydba · 12-16-2016, 01:16 PM

I solved it using previous code mentioned:

scp -p filename*.xlsx filename2*.xlsx username@hostname://dir/dir2

but this is for files WITHOUT the appended current date using Expect. Hey it works.