SCP Permission denied publickey on EC2 only when using -r flag on directories

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scp -r  Applications XAMPP htdocs keypairfile pem uploads ec2-user publicdns  var www html  where uploads is a directory returns  Permission denied  publickey     However  scp -i  Applications XAMPP htdocs keypairfile pem footer php ec2-user publicdns  var www html  works  notice the flag change    uploads is an empty folder  These are the file permissions for the uploads directory   drwxrwxrwx   3 geoffreysangston  admin     102 Nov 15 01 40 uploads  These are the file permissions for  var www html  drwxr-x--- 2 ec2-user ec2-user 4096 Jan  5 20 45 html  I ve tried changing html to 777 and that doesn t work either

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Even if above solutions don t work  check permissions to destination file of aws ec2 instance  May be you can try with- sudo chmod 777 -R destinationFolder

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transferring file from local to remote host  scp -i  path of your key   path for your file to be transferred     username ip   path where file to be copied   e g scp -i aws pem  home user1 Desktop testFile   ec2-user someipAddress  home ec2-user    P S  - ec2-user someipAddress of this ip address should have access to the destination folder in my case  home ec2-user

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The -i flag specifies the private key   pem file  to use  If you don t specify that flag  as in your first command  it will use your default ssh key  usually under    ssh     So in your first command  you are actually asking scp to upload the  pem file itself using your default ssh key  I don t think that is what you want   Try instead with   scp -r -i  Applications XAMPP htdocs keypairfile pem uploads   ec2-user publicdns  var www html uploads

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I was initially running  sudo scp  Once I ran just scp  without sudo  it copied everything fine  scp  It seems to me that sudo scp command wasn t reading my current user s SSH public key at    ssh id rsa pub

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If you want to upload the file  Applications XAMPP htdocs keypairfile pem to ec2-user publicdns  var www html  you can simply do      scp -Cr  Applications XAMPP htdocs keypairfile pem uploads  ec2-user publicdns  var www html    Where    -C - Compress data -r - Recursive

[unix] SCP Permission denied (publickey). on EC2 only when using -r flag on directories

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