I am trying to copy a file f I created on my local machine to a remote one (to the home directory of my user there) by SCP. I have root privileges on my machine, but after executing:
scp f username@remote.edu:/
I get:
scp: /f: Permission denied
Also
ls -l f
returns:
-rw-rw-r--
I'm confused, shouldn't i be able to copy it as root? Or even without it given the permissions?
This is error from remote side saying that you don't have write access to the / of the remote.edu. I guess you don't want to copy the file to the /, but to the home directory:
scp f username@remote.edu:
SCP is a simple tool and does not have very advanced error reporting features and the messages might not be so straightforward as expected. But if you run the same command with -vvv switches, it should tell you more information what is going on behind the scenes and where the error is actually coming from.