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Password for scp command

dmitrynheng — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:26:50 GMT

I am running Sandbox on VirtualBox within Windows 10.

When according to recommendation in "LEARNING THE ROPES OF THE HORTONWORKS SANDBOX" I issue the command

scp -P 2222 ~/Downloads/HDF-1.2.0.1-1.tar.gz root@localhost:/root

it asks for a password. But what password it expects? It looks like this is a different password from the one I setup using passwd command within Sandbox command shell as this password does not work for scp command

Re: Password for scp command

mrizvi — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:58:48 GMT

@Dmitry Otblesk , you have to use the password for root user. The same password which you used when you did SSH to the terminal.

Re: Password for scp command

slachterman — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 01:56:56 GMT

You may want to try adding 127.0.0.1 sandbox.hortonworks.com to /etc/hosts and retrying the scp command with sandbox.hortonworks.com instead of localhost

Re: Password for scp command

dmitrynheng — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:44:30 GMT

When I use this password (this is hadoop originally) I get the message that password expired. After I changed the password using passwd command within sandbox virtual machine the new password is not recognized by scp command. It looks like password expected by scp command and password controlled by passwd command are different passwords?

Re: Password for scp command

slachterman — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 06:34:37 GMT

@Dmitry Otblesk scp expects the new password, i.e., the value to which you changed the root user's password using passwd.

Can you SSH successfully as root on port 2222 using the new password? Running scp -v will return more verbose output that could provide a clue. I think it is worth trying with the hosts entry change in my first answer as well.

Re: Password for scp command

dmitrynheng — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 07:20:38 GMT

Apparently, as per your explanations within my different post, one password was for virtual machine and another was for docker within this virtual machine

Re: Password for scp command

slachterman — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 02:26:53 GMT

Got it, thanks for the follow-up.