I actually had to set both ssh keys and commented out the requiretty in the sudoers file. What I was doing was having ssh called from a script and running a command on that remote host it was ssh-ing into. On Oct 13, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos