Question

I try to write a script to “scp” a file from local server A to remote server B.
What I have done is generate the public key from server A, and add it into server B “authorized_keys”. Everything is find.
I do a small test, and ssh from A to B without password successfully. Here is the command

$ ssh userid@serverB

But here is the question. when I try to execute scp command, get failure because of “Unauthorized access is prohibited”.

-bash-4.1$ scp file_name userid@serverB:~
Unauthorized access is prohibited
file_name                                         100%    0     0.0KB/s   00:00

I have spent a lots of time to find out the reason, but cannot get the right answer.
Could anyone let me know, why this happen? Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

that looks like a message that’s coming out of a login script. is the file actually getting copied? I think that message has nothing to do with the success of the file copy itself.