Cannot scp a password file between virtual machines

Question

Hi all!
I am trying to test a Data Guard configuration on two appropriately configured Oracle Open Days images on Virtual Box. Unfortunately when trying to copy the password file from the primary to the standby using the following command.....
scp orapworcl oracle@dg2:/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_2/dbs
......I get the following error/message (because it isn't an error as such...)
All passwords are oracle or noted if otherwise.
Could it be that this is a functionality that is turned off for these images? It would be really helpful to get this going!
NOTE:
Both machines have statically assigned IPAddresses
TNSPING and PING show the other machine to be alive and databases "accessible"
No passwords have been changed
The Oracle version is 11.2.0.3
Many thank for your help in advance!
Regards,
Kev

Answer 1

Excerpt "man scp",
"scp copies files between hosts on a network. It uses ssh(1) for data
transfer, and uses the same authentication and provides the same security
as ssh(1). Unlike rcp(1), scp will ask for passwords or passphrases if
they are needed for authentication."
Other useful information for "ssh",
[OL6u3 ~]$ which ssh
/usr/bin/ssh
[OL6u3 ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/ssh
openssh-clients-5.3p1-81.el6.x86_64
[OL6u3 ~]$ rpm -ql openssh-clients
/etc/ssh/ssh_config
/usr/bin/.ssh.hmac
/usr/bin/scp
/usr/bin/sftp
/usr/bin/slogin
/usr/bin/ssh
/usr/bin/ssh-add
/usr/bin/ssh-agent
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id
/usr/bin/ssh-keyscan
/usr/share/man/man1/scp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sftp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/slogin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ssh-add.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ssh-agent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ssh-copy-id.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ssh-keyscan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ssh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/ssh_config.5.gz