SupportSages » Cannot spawn scp http://www.supportsages.com/blog Technical Support and Server Management : Musings in the fox hole. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:05:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 ‘scp’ permission issue : simple fix! http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/07/scp-permission-issue-simple-fix/ http://www.supportsages.com/blog/2009/07/scp-permission-issue-simple-fix/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:13:43 +0000 Fabian http://www.supportsages.com/blog/?p=425 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! :-)]]> 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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