tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote: > Hello > > I need to know a way to have scp allocate a tty on a remote machine > so I can have it run sudo and activate a vpn which it will need to > activate. scp with "-S" does not work. I can't chmod +s the cisco vpn client > because when I try to run it it says it can not have setuser. > > I could have the user scp via root but I do not want to do that. > > Any way to have scp allocate a tty? Why don't you set up ssh keys for a passwordless connection as the appropriate user for the file copy and avoid the problem? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com