The scenario we are trying to handle is where the public key is used for authentication followed by password. This is handled correctly by SFTP without any special commands or configuration.

Our .ssh/config also has PreferredAuthentication correctly set. This is becoming a very common setup in the Financial domain and I have also seen older posts on perlmonk where people have requested this to work automatically.

My only issue is that there is no control over PreferredAuthentication in a generic way - I can't turn off the autodetection and I can't see any benefit in the autodetection either. Could you please share what exactly was being addressed by the override - the ssh library does honor .ssh/config so why would we be forced to pass the PreferredAuthentication if sftp doesn't need it by default ?

In reply to Re^2: Preferred authentication in Net::SFTP::Foreign by mithunbh
in thread Preferred authentication in Net::SFTP::Foreign by mithunbh

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