OpenSSH Secure File Copy by Utahcon

scp copies files between hosts on a network. It uses ssh for data transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the same security as ssh.

Usage

Store your username and password in your repos secrets vault, more info on this here.

From within your GitHub Workflow simply add a job/step to deploy your codebase to the appropriate server:

jobs:
  deploy:
    - uses: utahcon/[email protected]
      with:
        server: example.org
        username: ${{ secrets.SCP_USERNAME }}
        private-key: ${{ secrets.SCP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
        source: "public/*"
        destination: "/var/www/public"
        recursive: true

Inputs

The following are the inputs expected/accepted when using action-scp

Input	Description	Required	Default
server	Specifies the remote host to send files to	true
port	Specifies the remote hosts port for sending files to	false	22
username	Username for authentication with server (use GitHub Secrets only)	true
password	Password for authentication with server (use GitHub Secrets only)	false
private-key	Private key used for key-based authentication with server (use GitHub Secrets only)	false
source	Path you wish to send to remote host.	true	.
destination	Path on remote host to store files	true	.
recursive	Flag to denote recursive copy of directory. Note that scp follows symbolic links encountered in the tree traversal	false
jumps	Connect to the target host by first making an scp connection to the jump host described by destination and then establishing a TCP forwarding to the ultimate destination from there. Multiple jump hops may be specified separated by comma characters.	false
ssh-options	Can be used to pass options to ssh in the format used in ssh_config. This is useful for specifying options for which there is no separate scp command-line flag. For full details of the options listed below, and their possible values, see ssh_config. Comma separated.   AddressFamily   BatchMode   BindAddress   BindInterface   CanonicalDomains   CanonicalizeFallbackLocal   CanonicalizeHostname   CanonicalizeMaxDots   CanonicalizePermittedCNAMEs   CASignatureAlgorithms   CertificateFile   ChallengeResponseAuthentication   CheckHostIP   Ciphers   Compression   ConnectionAttempts   ConnectTimeout   ControlMaster   ControlPath   ControlPersist   GlobalKnownHostsFile   GSSAPIAuthentication   GSSAPIDelegateCredentials   HashKnownHosts   Host   HostbasedAuthentication   HostbasedKeyTypes   HostKeyAlgorithms   HostKeyAlias   Hostname   IdentitiesOnly   IdentityAgent   IdentityFile   IPQoS   KbdInteractiveAuthentication   KbdInteractiveDevices   KexAlgorithms   LogLevel   MACs   NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost   NumberOfPasswordPrompts   PasswordAuthentication   PKCS11Provider   Port   PreferredAuthentications   ProxyCommand   ProxyJump   PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes   PubkeyAuthentication   RekeyLimit   SendEnv   ServerAliveInterval   ServerAliveCountMax   SetEnv   StrictHostKeyChecking   TCPKeepAlive   UpdateHostKeys   User   UserKnownHostsFile   VerifyHostKeyDNS	false