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So far in this series of posts on ssh
on macOS:
- Transferring files with
ssh
(this post) - SSH Tunnels (upcoming)
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In the previous posts we looked how to connect with ssh
to a remote computer (host) and how to setup the keys necessary for a secure connection.
Despite the name ssh
does not actually provide a shell or command line interface to the host itself. it ‘merely’ provides a secure connection to connect to the default shell on the host itself.
Even this basic use of ssh
is already very useful and powerful. It allows to open one or more full command line sessions to remote computers as if we sat at their keyboard. You can also send individual commands and receive and process the results.
However, ssh
has a few more powerful tools available.
Copy Files Remotely
You can also use the ssh
connection to copy files to and from a remote host.
The command you use for this is scp
(secure copy) and it use the same basic syntax as the cp
command
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But, since scp
can copy from the local computer to a remote host or vice versa, you usually add a bit more information:
(The examples will use a file name hello.txt
. To create one quickly, simply type echo 'Hello SSH' > hello.txt
in Terminal.)
To simplify this, a few examples:
This will copy the local file sample.txt
from the current working directory to the remote host’s ~/Documents/
directory. scp
will show an ascii progress bar for every file copied. (though with these small files, you will not see much of it) You can suppress the progress display with the -q
(quite) option.
For the destination, the colon :
separates the hostname (DNS) from the file path.
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This command will prompt for the user’s password on the remote host, unless you have added your public key to the remote host’s authorized_keys
file.
Since no user name is given before the hostname (separated with an @
) scp
uses the username that you are logged in with on the local computer. If the remote user has a different name, use:
We do not want the local shell to evaluate the ~
to the local home directory, but want the remote computer to evaluate ~
to the remote user’s home directory, so we have to quote the remote path.
Like cp
, when the source is a file and the destination is a directory, then the file will be placed into the destination directory.
If the remote path does not exist, then scp
will present an error:
You can also rename the file while copying:
You can copy files from the remote host to your local machine:
In this case we passed .
or the current working directory as the destination. You can also pass a local path:
Use the -r
option to copy all the contents of a directory:
Remote-to-remote Copies
You can copy from one remote host to another.
There are two solutions for this. The first will copy the file to the local computer and then back up to the other remote host. You invoke this version of remote-to-remote with the -3
option.
(I am shortening the full domain names from primus.example.com
and secundus.example.com
to primus
and secundus
for simplicity.)
Under most circumstances copying a file down to your Mac and then back up to the other remote host is less than ideal. Imagine you are working from home with your laptop and want to copy a large file from one server at work to another.
The other option is to tell the source remote host to scp
the to the other remote host. You could achieve this by ssh
ing to the remote machine and running scp
from there. Thankfully, scp
is smart enough to attempt exactly that when you type
This command will probably fail right now. It requires a few things to be set up to work:
- either: client key authentication to be setup from
primus
tosecundus
- or: client key authentication from your local computer to
primus
andsecundus
with agent forwarding enabled
The first option is fairly easy to understand. scp
will connect to primus
and authenticate with your local client key. Then it will tell primus
to connect to secundus
, authenticating using primus
’ client key and the copy the file. It basically works as if you ssh
ed in to primus
and ran scp
without the extra typing.
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There are drawbacks to this. If ssh-agent
is not running on primus
and does not have the passphrase stored yet, then primus
cannot unlock its private key and authenticate to secundus
.
Also you basically need to prepare all remote hosts to have keys exchanged between each other, which can be painful, if not impossible to manage.
Agent Forwarding
The second option, called ‘Agent Forwarding’, circumvents these problems. This will tell the first remote host (primus
) to ask your local ssh-agent
for a key to authenticate to secundus
. The system does not actually transfer the private key, but asks ssh-agent
on your local computer to encode the authentication challenge for primus
.
That way you only need to manage the keys for all remote hosts on your local computer.
You can also use agent forwarding with normal ssh
connections. It is not enabled by default, but you can enable it for an ssh
session with the -o ForwardAgent=yes
option:
Since this is hard to type, there is a shortcut:
When you are logged in to the remote host with agent forwarding enabled, you can then ssh from there to another remote host (secundus
) and it will try to use the keys from your local computer’s ssh-agent
to authenticate.
This can be a useful strategy if direct access to the second remote host (other.mac.com
) is blocked with firewalls.
You can also use this for the scp
remote-to-remote copy. Unfortunately, scp
does not have a convenient -A
option, so you have to use the long parameter form:
When you need agent forwarding regularly for a specific host, you can enable it by default for this particular host in your ~/.ssh/config
file. Add the following lines:
Note: There are some security concerns with agent forwarding. A user with root access on the intermediate system can gain access to the connection to your local ssh-agent, thus gaining the ability to encrypt with your private keys. Be aware of this in security sensitive environments.
SFTP
If you have many files in a complex file structure , scp
can be a little cumbersome. There is a special interactive mode that you can invoke with the sftp
command (secure file transfer program).
Note: sftp
(according to its man page) is ‘similar’ to ftp
but not identical. It also should not be confused with ftps
which is ftp
over SSL.
Obviously, if you have key authentication setup, sftp
will use that.
There are many interactive commands to navigate the local and remote file system and upload (put
) and download (get
) files. You can look at the details in the sftp
man page. However, if you need to use sftp
frequently, then you should use a graphical sftp
application. There are a large number of SFTP client for macOS and iOS. Here is a list of some popular clients: (AppStore links are affiliate links.)
- Transmit (Mac Version, also iOS AppStore): Aside from a great macOS application, Transmit also comes as an iOS App.
Update 2018-01-10:Panic is going to cease development and sale of Transmit for iOS for the time being - Fetch (Mac AppStore): Fetch offers free licenses for educational and charitable organisations
- CyberDuck (Mac AppStore): CyberDuck has an optional command line tool
- MountainDuck (Mac AppStore): Sibling to CyberDuck, but mounts remote servers in the Finder.
- FileZilla: free open source solution
All of these tools connect to many other server protocols other than sftp
. However, the advantage of sftp
is not just the built-in security, but that you don’t need other software than sshd
running on the server.
Summary
Previous Post: Client Verification
- you can use
scp [[user@]host:]source [[user@]host:]destination
to copy files from or to a remote host overssh
- you can use agent forwarding to simplify key management in triangle setups
sftp
help managing/transferring multiple files overssh
, there are many UI applications
Next Post: SSH Tunnels