how to copy folder using putty

[ranj]

Dear All

 

I am having some serious issues copying a folder onto a linux web server running Gentoo Linux.

 

We dont have access to root user due to security issues. So an account was created for us where we had to use a private key file to authenticate (ppk)

 

As far as I know the username we had created has full write access to directories but it comes with an error in winscp saying

 

error code 3: Permission denied. request code: 14

 

At the moment I cant get through to our linux guy but desperatly need to copy some files across. I know the private key is correct.

 

As I dont know linux very well. We do use something called webmin which is accessed through a browser. That seems to have some features but because I don't know what to press I dont want to start pressing things that I dont understand.

 

Can anyone help how I could get some file across either using Winscp, putty or webmin?

 

thank you

[Ric_]

Did you try the command line version (pscp)?

 

IIRC the command will be

 

pscp -R directoryname user@server:pathtoputfilesin

[dhicks]

pscp -R directoryname user@server:pathtoputfilesin

 

If the server has been set up to accept logins via keys only, you'll need to tell the command line utility which identity file to use:

 

pscp -i myIDFile.ppk -R directoryname user@server:pathtoputfilesin

 

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David Hicks