Remote copy task query?

KodeKloud Engineer
#1

Hi,

I completed the remote copy task successfully but I think I could have done it better, here’s what I did:

I used scp to copy the file to the home directory of the user on the remote server,; I then ssh’d to the remote server and copied the file from the home directory to the directory specified in the question.

I couldn’t scp the file directly to the specified directory as I kept receiving permission denied, even after chmod-ing and chown-ing the remote directory. I used the command:

scp < local file name > < remote user >@< remote server >:/remote/directory

Any thoughts on what I could have done better or if anyone wants to share their method it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Jason

#2

Hi Jason

Have you created ssh keys as it will ease your task and also check the permissions of the target directory if they have write permission on it .

#3

Hi,

For this task the SSH keys were already set up so that was not an issue (copying to the users’ home directory on the remote server worked). Clearly it was a permissions issue on the remote server directory but I couldn’t get it to work. Was just curious to know from anyone else who attempted this question how they did it.

Thanks,
Jason

#4

Hi Jason,

Have you tried to “request a review”. That way other engineers can view your activity and give you feedback on exactly what went wrong.

#5

Hello, @Jazsnap
Use scp command from the jump host to the app server /tmp/ directory because we have already seen permission denied issues so we will not get permission issues in that directory. After secure copying to /tmp/ directory, move it to /home/app directory with root privileges (use sudo with cp command) because normal users cannot access or transfer data in other home directory.
Hope this will help you.