But in such a case, when we share a public key from server/system B to server/system A, this generally indicates that user from server B is transferring files to server A and not vice-versa.
No! It means that the authentication is done in this direction.
Consider it this way: if you give someone the key to your house he has access to it. That could mean he takes away something or brings something, but this difference is not depending on him receiving your key or not. He could do both these things without the key too, he just would have to ring your bell (and wait till you answer it) if he lacks the key.
If userA@systemA (notice that "userA" on one system and "userA" on another system are two different accounts, they just happen to share the same name) has his key on systemB this user is allowed to log on (without password). What he does after this logon is not determined by the key at all. He could put files (that is: transfer to the server) or get files (that is: copy files from that server).
This is also possible with classical ftp or sftp: there is the put/mput command to move files to the system and get/mget command to move/copy files from the system.
In scp this would look like:
This will transfer a remote file from "system" using the account "user" to the local system. The other way would be:
This would transfer a local file using the account "user" to the remote system "system". The difference between having put the key of your local user on "system" will be: without the key you need to authenticate, with the key you don't.
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