2.5 Secure Copy

Sometimes it’s needed to copy files from one Virtual Machine to another. This is done with the scp command which means Secure Copy this uses the SSH protocol to copy files between machines.

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Secure Copy to your machine

We are going to copy the file veryimportantfile from the Hypervizor your student VM, using the scp command, it looks nearly the same as the ssh command.

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You need to know exactly where the file is, and we know that it is at /home/greater/veryimportantfile on the Hypervizor.

scp [user]@[server]:[/file/location] [/where/you/want/the/file]

To accomplish the copy of the veryimportantfile we can use the following command:

scp /home/greater/veryimportantfile greater@rhcsa:/home/greater/veryimportantfile

This will attempt to login with the user greater on the rhcsa server to copy the veryimportantfile to it.

• It will ask if you want to register the key type: yes

• It will ask for a password, this is: greater

Now we can check what is in the veryimportantfile with the cat command this shows what is in a test file just directly in the terminal.

cat /home/greater/veryimportantfile

You should get a important message.