’scp’ permission issue : simple fix!

While trying to ’scp’ files or directories between servers or machines, you may get the following error message:

Cannot spawn scp Permission denied

The fix for this error may be the simplest fix ever explained on this blog .  This error is generated when ’scp’ is  executed by a non ‘root’ user. The solution is to login as ‘root’ and change the permission of ’scp’ to 755.

execute the command

type scp

Result would be /usr/bin/scp

Now change the permission

chmod 755 /usr/bin/scp

Hey, you are done!

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