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I am trying to sftp or scp from the command line on my Pi to my GoDaddy server. I'm able to connect to the server with CyberDuck on my Mac and on a windows machine but I can't get my Pi to connect from the command line.

I did go into the Pi configuration and enable SSH.

sftp wcwc@blah.com
scp /home/pi/Pictures/image.jpg wcwc@blah.com:/

I'm prompted for a password, then access denied in both cases.

I looked in the log files but didn't see any errors coming back from the server, but I may not have looked in the right log?

I'm out of ideas.

UPDATE

Thank you for your response. The -vvv is huge.

Do I have to install some kind of ssh key and have a password?

In the debug script I see:

debug1: Next authentication method: password
wcwc@cliffandbuster.com's password:
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password
Permission denied, please try again.
wcwc@blah.com's password:
debug3: send packet: type 50
debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply
debug3: receive packet: type 51
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password
Permission denied, please try again.
wcwc@blah.com's password:

Same results.

Ingo
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Rich Strle
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With

rpi ~$ scp /home/pi/Pictures/image.jpg wcwc@blah.com:/

you are trying to copy the image to the root directory / on blah.com. Doing such things isn't allowed usually for normal user. You get the error message

scp: /image.jpg: Permission denied

Verify scp with copying to the default home directory of the user with

rpi ~$ scp /home/pi/Pictures/image.jpg wcwc@blah.com:.

Note the dot as last character.

If you can use ssh wcwc@blah.com then you should also be able to use sftp wcwc@blah.com. It is just using ssh but only with another user interface. Check with the verbose option -vvv what's the problem:

sftp -vvv wcwc@blah.com

If you are asked for a password, just enter the password of wcwc that is used to login on server blah.com if you are sitting in front of it.

Ingo
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The site I'm trying to sftp to is a subdomain under a master domain. Long story short you can't sftp to a subdomain with this hosting provider. I can old school ftp but there is a trust issue I have to work through.

Ingo, thanks for your help. The -vvv was a huge tip.

Rich Strle
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