Hi, I tried this command: scp /etc/file remotehost:/etc/file &
but when scp asks for the password, I'm actually back on the command line. (thus the scp command fails) Is there anyway around this? I would love to be able to run scp in the background. I looked at the man page, and see a flag -B , but I don't quite get how that works. I basically want to remote shell into my server, run a scp command that may take serveral hours, but be able to let the scp take place while I exit the shell and go for lunch. Thanks! Mike
