

Generally, working in the root account should be an exception, not a rule - the way you phrasing your question makes me think maybe you're abusing it a bit, which in turn leads to problems with permissions - under normal circumstances you don't need super-admin privileges to access your own files. scp -r folder/ sudo mv /some/folder /some/folder/requiring/permsĪnother solution would be to change permissions/ownership of the directories you uploading the files to, so your non-privileged user is able to write to those directories. A workaround is to use scp to upload files to a directory where your user has permissions to create files, then log in via ssh and use sudo to move/copy files to their final destination. You're right, there is no sudo when working with scp.
