Re^2: Issue with Net::SSH::Perl - can't establish connection

There's a reason I have $USER and $USERNAME, but I see your point and I'll look at combining them. But that doesn't explain why the script is failing... It's reading my .ssh/config, pulling the correct key/user combo and sends them to the remote server. The remote server accepts the key, but then the script dies with the error...

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Re^3: Issue with Net::SSH::Perl - can't establish connection by salva (Canon) on Jul 21, 2017 at 06:53 UTC
`Error reading response length from auth socket. at /usr/local/lib64/perl5/Net/SSH/Perl/Auth/PublicKey.pm line 104.` That looks like the module is connecting to the local ssh agent and getting an unexpected response. Are your keys protected by a passphrase? I would run both the Perl script and the OpenSSH client with strace and see what both were doing different at the point of failure.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Issue with Net::SSH::Perl - can't establish connection by dayton (Acolyte) on Jul 21, 2017 at 15:42 UTC
Strange...yep, it's the connection to the local agent. I killed the existing agent (started when I logged in) and started a new one, and added the key. Connection successful! Now just need to figure out why the existing agent borked with Net::SSH::Perl but not with straight openssh... Thanks.	[reply]