On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:56:37PM +0100, Gavin Henry wrote: > > I can ssh just fine to any box, but the error message with scp is, when > issuing: > > scp -p user@host:~/file user2@host2:~/ > > Permission denied, please try again. > Permission denied, please try again. > Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive). > lost connection This is a long known bug with ssh, at least on Linux. It's already in bugzilla against RHEL3. Something like ssh user@host1 scp file user2@host2:file should work 8)