Perl Net::SSH2 Connect not able to authenticate I have small script to connect to server and then run my Perl script on it but I keep getting this error message. I can connect to the same machine when I run a command - SSH username@hostname using the same credentials. I am new to Perl and Linux so not sure how to debug. Error message : ssh auth failed. Net::SSH2::DESTROY object 0x16393c80 Script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use lib qw(/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Net/SSH/Perl);
use Net::SSH2;

my $host = "server"; 
my $user = "user"; # your account
my $pass = "pasword"; # your password
my $cmd;
my $ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new();
$ssh2->debug(1);
if ($ssh2->connect($host)) {
    #if ($ssh2->auth_password($user,$pass)) {
    if ($ssh2->auth_keyboard($user,$pass)) {
        print "\n Executing command...\n";
        $cmd = "ls";
        print " ==> Running $cmd\n";
        if(is_sshalive($ssh2) == 1) {
                print "\nSSH connection died";
                exit 1;
        } else {
            run_testsuite($cmd, $ssh2);
        }
    } else {
        warn "ssh auth failed.\n";
        exit 1;
    }
} else {
    warn "Unable to connect Host $host \n";
    exit 1;
}
print "test passed done 0\n";

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