Not working scp command: Connection closed by remote host (Mac OS X)
I just had the same issues with an SCP from my personal Mac to a Mac desktop we use as a local server. Running sudo sshd -t showed me the following hint:
/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writableAll I did was change the owner back to root (I'm not sure why it wasn't already, but I remember upgrading from Mavericks to Yosemite gave me a couple headaches regarding permissions):
cd /varsudo chown root emptyI hope it helps.
I got this problem too.
I tried "sudo sshd -t" , but there seemed no problem.
Then I checked my "hosts.allow" & "hosts.deny", no problem ether.
Finally I found out that I use the '~' path int the command, here's it:
scp ~/Downloads/afile root@host2:~/Downloads
I changed it to the following one:
scp /home/Downloads/afile root@host2:/home/DownloadsAnd it works now. Hope this can help.