brain-dump/sysadmin/macos/ssh-on-macos.md

SSH File Transfer from MacOS to a Linux Desktop

For easy data transfer over command-line.

On the Mac

See if SSH is enabled by running the following in a terminal:

sudo systemsetup -getremotelogin

Remote Login: Off

Enable it:

sudo systemsetup -setremotelogin on && sudo systemsetup -getremotelogin

Remote Login: On

If you want to disable it, later on:

sudo systemsetup -setremotelogin off

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On the Linux Machine

If you want to pull files from a Mac machine to a Linux machine (assuming both source & destination's SSH runs on port 22.. if not, specify the port as -p 123):

Grab a file from the Mac:

scp -r localadmin@mojave.local:/Users/localadmin/Desktop/macapp.app ~/Desktop

Because .app's are essentially just folders, scp would initially throw: not a regular file - use the recursive -r flag to pull it over.

Send to the Mac from Linux:

scp ~/Desktop/test.sh localadmin@mojave.local:/Users/localadmin/Desktop