I'd consider myself new to this still so I'll try my best to explain the trouble I'm having. I'm trying to send a file through scp to a remote server, and I get Permission denied (publickey). When I run the command with verbose (-v), I get no errors that I can find until the very end. And the target directory is rwx with the user I'm using for scp. Help!
legoman@legoman-desktop:~$ sudo scp -v /home/legoman/Documents/index.html legoman@ip:/home/legoman/Documents Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host ip, user legoman, command scp -v -t /home/legoman/Documents OpenSSH_8.3p1 Ubuntu-1ubuntu0.1, OpenSSL 1.1.1f 31 Mar 2020 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/*.conf matched no files debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to ip [ip] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_xmss type -1 debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_xmss-cert type -1 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.3p1 Ubuntu-1ubuntu0.1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 debug1: match: OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.1 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000 debug1: Authenticating to ip:22 as 'legoman' debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256 debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 debug1: kex: server->client cipher: [email protected] MAC: <implicit> compression: none debug1: kex: client->server cipher: [email protected] MAC: <implicit> compression: none debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY debug1: Server host key: ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 SHA256:bdj... debug1: Host 'ip' is known and matches the ECDSA host key. debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocks debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks debug1: Will attempt key: /root/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Will attempt key: /root/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Will attempt key: /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa debug1: Will attempt key: /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk debug1: Will attempt key: /root/.ssh/id_ed25519 debug1: Will attempt key: /root/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk debug1: Will attempt key: /root/.ssh/id_xmss debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,[email protected],ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,[email protected]> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_ed25519 debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_ed25519_sk debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_xmss debug1: No more authentication methods to try. legoman@ip: Permission denied (publickey). lost connection or is there another less secure way to transfer files? This is getting tedious.
