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I have an EC2 instance running (FreeBSD 9 AMI ami-8cce3fe5), and I can ssh into it using my amazon-created key file without password prompt, no problem.
However, when I want to copy a file to the instance using scp I am asked to enter a password:
scp somefile.txt -i mykey.pem root@my.ec2.id.amazonaws.com:/
Password:
Any ideas why this is happening/how it can be prevented?
I figured it out. I had the arguments in the wrong order. This works: