On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Larry Becke wrote: >Oh- it also makes the scp send only. > >ie - you cannot copy a file from the remote host, to the local host. correct. For copying from remote side, you run that internall ssh with (slightly simplified) "scp -f <FILE>". Well, you could set another key and you could always copy the same file :-) -- Jan Pechanec