-\# Default is to ask. (May not be appropriate when running PSCP from
-\# batch scripts etc.)
-\# But should be using RSA key authentication (qv.) and possibly
-\# Pageant (qv.) anyway.
+If a password is required to connect to the \c{host}, PSCP will
+interactively prompt you for it. However, this may not always be
+appropriate. If you are running PSCP as part of some automated job,
+it will not be possible to enter a password by hand. The \c{-p}
+option to PSCP lets you specify the password to use on the command
+line.
+
+Since specifying passwords in scripts is a bad idea for security
+reasons, you might want instead to consider using public-key
+authentication. PSCP will attempt to authenticate with any public key
+specified in a saved session's configuration before asking for a
+password.