SCP not working permission denied even with SSH key given

Question

I am trying to get scp to work and transfer a file from a remote server to my local. I tried looking around and this post helped the most but it still is not working here is the current output.

<HOSTNAME>:chef4-rep
<USERNAME>$ sudo scp -i ./.chef/<NAME>.pem <USERNAME>@<IP>:/home/postgres/post_0604_dump/db0604_schema_and_data.sql ~/
<USERNAME>@<IP>: Permission denied (publickey).

Answer 1

The issue turned out not to be with my command but that I was trying to copy a file in another users directory and it wouldn't work. I ended up SSH'ing in and using sudo to copy the file to my home directory and then used scp with no issues.

Answer 2

Kindly use below command to get it done.

root@localhost# scp -r "source_file/directory" "Destination address- remote-IP/Hostname:/location"

And if you are using passwordless ssh then make sure you are using correct user whose public keys are shared with remote server.

Thanks

Answer 3

I had the same issue with scp and got Permission denied (publickey) :

This worked: ssh -i "mykey.pem" ubuntu@??.??.??.???

But this didn't: scp -i "mykey.pem" test.php ubuntu@??.??.??.???:

I solved it by removing the quotes off my key file:

scp -i mykey.pem test.php ubuntu@??.??.??.???: