# Ensure the invoking process has a valid ssh-agent running, and is loaded with an appropriate key, or keys use warnings; use strict; use Net::SSH::Perl::Key; use Net::SSH::Perl::Agent; my $agent = Net::SSH::Perl::Agent->new(2); my ($key, $comment) = $agent->first_identity; use Net::SSH::Perl; my $ssh_user = 'myuser'; my $ssh_host = 'myhost'; ## How to use the above referenced $key in the following ssh connection ?? ## my %ssh_params = ( debug => '1', options => [ "StrictHostKeyChecking no", "UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null" ] ); my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new( $ssh_host, %ssh_params ); my $result = $ssh->login("$ssh_user"); if ( $result ) { print "Logged in as ${ssh_user} on host ${ssh_host}\n"; } else { print "Failed to login in as ${ssh_user} on host ${ssh_host}\n"; }