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in thread How to connect to SFTP via OpenSSH

ALright, so when I add the error string to the end of my sftp() method, it returns:

Permission denied (publickey, password).
unable to establish master SSH connection: bad password or master proc
+ess exited unexpectedly at line 23

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I've tested the password in one of my SFTP clients just to be sure everything was right and it worked fine.

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Re^3: How to connect to SFTP via OpenSSH
by tangent (Parson) on Aug 26, 2014 at 01:24 UTC
    Your problem is that you are not making the SSH connection in the first place. Where you have: 
    $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new(host=>$host, user=>$user, password=>$pw) or d
+ie "can't :(\n" . $ssh->error;

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    that is not actually testing for failure as new() always succeeds - from the Net::OpenSSH docs: 
    This method always succeeds in returning a new object. Error checking 
+has to be performed explicitly afterwards:

my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host, %opts);
$ssh->error and die "Can't ssh to $host: " . $ssh->error;

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    I suspect one of your parameters is incorrect. When I log in via SSH I use: ssh username@username.example.com. That translates to: 
    my $host = "username.example.com";
my $user = "username";
my $pw = "password";

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    Also, if you use public key authentication (which you really should) then you need to provide the path to your key.
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      You were right about incorrect credentials. I was able to resolve that issue. Now for some reason it fails when trying to put a file on my SFTP server. I get the message:

      Can't put. Couldn't open remote file 'sftptest': Folder not found: sftptest at line 25.

      So why is it looking for a folder called sftptest when putting? I've clearly defined that as a file? Also, what does it mean "can't open remote file"? This isn't a remote file yet...?

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        Folder not found: sftptest
        This is the error returned by the remote server. Looks like some Windows server, I would not expect too much from it.

        Enable debugging of Net::SFTP::Foreign at the beginning of your script to see what is actually happening under the hood: 

        $Net::SFTP::Foreign::debug = -1;

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        ...and post here the output.
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        Try: 
        $sftp->put($putFile,'/path/to/remote/file');

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