Hello,

I'm using scp to copy files to a server. I have a user directory in the server and a subdirectory. This is the directories:

Server:
/home/user
/home/user/subdir

My problem is: Using the command "scp files user@server:.", how can I link the "." directory to the subdir to copy the files to /home/user/subdir instead of the /home/user?

Thanks.

As the default current directory "." is /home/user, ./subdir/ is the same as /home/user/subdir/.

PS: I am not sure if the last slash in subdir/ is really necessary. But it not hurts.

You didn't understand the question, my problem is that I can't change the format of the command "scp files user@server:.".

oh, I see....
Can you change your home dir in the remote system to /home/user/subdir ?
Or create a new bogus user with the home dir set to /home/user/subdir ?

What are you try to accomplish ?
May be you can use other transfer programs over ssh, like rsync.

Would be nice if you develop your question a little more....

Well,

The "user" on that server was copying files with normal scp to its homedir. Now I want to convert the user to copy the files using scponly. Doing the chroot environment in the server the homedir will be:

/home/user/ -> owned by root
/home/user/"chroot system files and directories" -> owned by root
/home/user/subdir -> owned by user

With this scenario, the user only have permission to copy the files to subdir, and I want to be that way. Now I don't want to tell to the user client about the server changes, this should be transparent, so the command "scp files user@server:." shouldn't change. Instead the server should be capable of redirect the incoming files to the subdir.