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Prabesh Shrestha
Asked: 2011-03-29 07:17:19 +0800 CST

copy with ssh with port other than 22

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How do I copy files from my local to some remote server which hosts ssh on port other than default (22).

I usually connect to the server using

ssh [email protected] -p 2000

Now I need to copy files with scp

user@localbox:~$ scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]:~/.ssh/id_rsa_localbox.pub -p 2000

But this does not work.

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3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    scp --help or man scp would have told you the option was -P port. You also need to declare this before the file arguments:

    scp -P 2000 -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [email protected]:~/.ssh/id_rsa_localbox.pub

    I also wouldn't trust ~-relative links. Use full paths if you can.

    But if you're copying IDs, ssh-copy-id also has an option to provide SSH connection options:

    ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub '-p 2000 [email protected]'
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  2. use a capital P

    (it's in the man page...)

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  3. You can create file ~/.ssh/config and put relevant information for the remote host in there:

    Host remotehost.com
Port 2000
User username

    See man page for ssh_config.

    This allows you to then run ssh as:

    ssh remotehost.com

    and scp as:

    scp important_file remotehost.com:
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