Re: [PLUG] scp help

I'm a little confused. S/he sent you a private key? This is backwards. You should be creating a key pair and sending them the public key to put in their authorized key file, not the other way around.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys--2

... and the colon thing everyone mentioned, too.

Thanks,

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 22:10 Ed Ackerman <edack@kengel.com wrote:

So I voluntered to help some research person collecting NTP data.
S/he sent me a key which i saved in ~/.ssh
Created since i didn't have one, a ~/.ssh/config file
Placed the line IdentiyFile ./.ssh/xxxxxx
Now when I so to scp using the following:
scp -i xxxxxx myFile user@EduSite/dir1/fileName
Immediatly I get the scp usage message

I'm lost.

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