use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::SSH::Perl;
use Net::SSH::Perl::Auth;
use Net::SSH::Perl::Auth::RSA; 
use Net::SSH::Perl::Auth::PublicKey;
use Net::SSH::Perl::Agent ;

my @ids = ("/home/abc/.ssh/id_rsa");
my %params = ( 'protocol' => 2, 'interactive' => 1, 'identity_files' =
+> \@ids, );

my $host = "server";

my $login = Net::SSH::Perl->new($host, %params)|| die "could not creat
+e ssh object for host";

my $auth = Net::SSH::Perl::Auth->new('PublicKey', $login) || die "coul
+d not create Auth object";

$auth->authenticate;

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I am trying to do the Public Key Authemtication. But I am hetting an error saying "Can't call method "agent" on an undefined value at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.0/Net/SSH/Perl/Auth/PublicKey.pm line 42.". not sure why it is exiting as soon as it calls $auth_authenticate() thnaks --girija

In reply to problem with Net::SSH::Perl using dsa key authenticatio by joshig

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