copying files between two linux machines.

[Brian Kelsay]

ismgr wrote:

> I know I posted something here before, but I can't seem to get this to work 
> using scp and I was wondering what I was doing wrong.
> 
> I'm sshing into the box that I want to get files from and then I issue a 
> command along the lines of:
> 
> scp user at host1:file1 user at host2:file2
> 
> Is this not correct?
> 
> That's how the man pages read and I can't seem to get it working right. 
> 
> I'm sure it's something that I probably hadn't known about, but any help is 
> appreciated.
Do you need to pass the password for the user on the remote machine you 
are connecting as?  Or is that stored locally in a .profile or .conf 
file?  That is where I would look first.

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Hmmm.