Olaf, I receive this using scp when I have not ssh'd to the remote server manually once. You have to ssh once manually and enter the password first in my experience. After that, you should be good to go. -john -- John Lavin jlavin1@voicenet.com Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Message: > Parser Error: 'You have no controlling tty. Cannot read passphrase.' > > Is there any hope of getting this to work?