Secure File Copy

[Enrique Ayesta Perojo]

El Asteartea, 15 de Azaroa de 2005 15:17, Joshua Lewis escribió:
> I was trying that I did
>
> scp -Cprroot at server.com:/usr/local/www
> localhost:/Users/joshua/Desktop/FreeBSD
>
> And it prompted me for a password on the server but the root password would
> not authenticate.

I don't know very much about MacOs but usually the user root is disabled by 
default at the sshd configuration, so you should use a "normal" user account 
to copy the files. If not, take a look at the sshd config file and allow the 
root user to use ssh.