Re: More SFTP Questions

On 1/27/12 7:05 AM, Jeff Young wrote:

The following is a copy of the session:
sftp -oPort=2222 user_name@199.83.137.157<user_name@199.83.137.157>

Connecting to 199.83.137.157...
sftp>
lcd /faceymms/01
sftp>
lls
DHANO120125B-0.txt DSIMO120125B-0.txt test.txt
sftp>
put test.txt
Uploading test.txt to /test.txt
Couldn't get handle: Permission denied

What are the causes of the above error and what can I do about it?

You're trying to save test.txt into the root '/' directory on the target system (the "to /test.txt" part of the "Uploading..." message).

It is likely you don't have permission to write to the '/' directory on the target system. I would expect you need to do a "cd" to get into the directory the folks owning the target system have provided for you to write files into. i.e. you need to do something like this before the put command:

cd /some/path/on/the/target

alternatively, you can alter the put command to include the path:

put test.txt /some/path/on/the/target/test.txt