{...} Bernie-7-PC: Host 'shell02.theworld.com' is known and matches the host key. Bernie-7-PC: Verifying server signature. Bernie-7-PC: Send NEWKEYS. Bernie-7-PC: Waiting for NEWKEYS message. Bernie-7-PC: Enabling encryption/MAC/compression. Bernie-7-PC: Sending request for user-authentication service. Bernie-7-PC: Service accepted: ssh-userauth. Bernie-7-PC: Trying empty user-authentication request. Bernie-7-PC: Authentication methods that can continue: publickey,keyboard-inter ctive. Bernie-7-PC: Next method to try is publickey. Permission denied at D:\Desktop\sshtest.pl line 15. #### my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new("shell02.theworld.com", protocol => 2, debug=>1, strict_host_key_checking => "no", options => ["PasswordAuthentication yes"] ) ; $ssh->login($login{user}, $login{password}) ;