A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Unit 7: Linux Network Services
Chapter 18: OpenSSH: Secure Network
Communication
By Fred R. McClurg
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 scp : Secure Copy
◦ Performs a secure and encrypted copy from one system to another.
 ssh : Secure Shell
◦ Enables secure and encrypted logins between remote systems.

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Syntax: scp \ user@fromHost:srcFile \ user@toHost:destFile

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Problem:
◦ User abc wants to copy the ~/.bashrc
file from his or her local computer to a system named bravo
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Which is the correct solution?
◦ cp ~abc/.bashrc bravo:~abc
◦ scp ~/.bashrc bravo:~abc
◦ scp abc@bravo/.bashrc ~
◦ scp ~/.bashrc abc@bravo

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Which is the correct solution?
1.
cp ~abc/.bashrc bravo:~abc
2.
scp ~/.bashrc bravo:~abc
3.
scp abc@bravo/.bashrc ~
4.
scp ~/.bashrc abc@bravo
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Answers:
1.
Creates file named “bravo:~abc”
2.
Works!
3.
Copy wrong direction. Missing colon
4.
Should have colon at end. Creates file named “abc@bravo”